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 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.