Our five-part Timeline series documents the failed response to abuse allegations in the Upper Midwest Diocese of the ACNA starting in mid-2019 and ultimately leading to the formation of ACNAtoo in mid-2021.
Piecing It All Together: Part 5, Breaking Point
When communities listen to survivor stories, they empower and support survivors on their journey toward restored dignity. This fifth section of our timeline documents the final stage of the UMD mishandling of abuse allegations that led to the formation of ACNAtoo.
Piecing it All Together: Part 4, Official Channels
Survivors often face secondary trauma and exhaustion when navigating official channels. In this fourth section of our timeline, we document the futility of seeking help through institutions that are structured in a way that makes justice impossible.
Piecing it All Together: Part 03, Incompetence & Malpractice
Survivors experience secondary trauma when church leaders exhibit incompetence and pastoral malpractice in response to abuse allegations.
In this third section of our timeline, we lay out disturbing pastoral responses that followed the reports of abuse.
Piecing It All Together: Part 02, Ignored & Rejected
What happens when churches turn their backs on abuse survivors?
This second section of our timeline highlights the ways that communities shun victims and support predators.
Piecing It All Together: Part 01, An Accusation and Arrest
Abuse alone did not require the creation of #ACNAtoo. #ACNAtoo is a response to grave mishandling of abuse by church leaders. This first section of our timeline begins to lay out the child sexual abuse and subsequent mishandling that led to the formation of #ACNAtoo.