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Ruth Elizabeth Krall

Ruth Elizabeth Krall (February 12, 1940 - ) is a feminist activist, a therapist, a sexual violence expert, a psychiatric-community mental health nurse, a pastoral theologian, and a college professor (Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, CA, the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ and Goshen College in Goshen, IN). Krall was one of the first people in the global Mennonite Church to call attention to the presence of clergy and religious leader sexual violence.

Born: Ruth Elizabeth Krall

February 12, 1940, Mount Joy, Pennsylvania

Father: Carl Sumpman Krall

Mother: Elizabeth Ruth Charles Krall

Nationality: American

Education

Eastern Mennonite College, non-graduating

Goshen College, BSN

University of Cincinnati, MSN

Southern California School of Theology at Claremont, PhD

 Occupation 

Registered Nurse

College Professor

 Contents 

Early Life

Career

Books and Articles

References

Honors and Legacy

Book and Articles

References

 Early Life 

Krall was born in her parents’ home in Mount Joy, PA on February 12, 1940. She was the daughter of Carl Sumpman Krall and Elizabeth Ruth Charles Krall. She had two older brothers, Carl Richard (Dick) Krall and John H. Krall.

In 1962, Krall graduated from Goshen College in Goshen, IN with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing. In 1971, she graduated from the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH with a Master of Science Degree in Nursing. In 1990, she graduated from the Southern California School of Theology with a PhD in Theology and Personality.

 Career 

Krall began her career as a psychiatric-community mental health practitioner as a staff nurse at Brook Lane Psychiatric Hospital on the outskirts of Hagerstown, Maryland. After additional graduate work, she joined the nursing faculty at Goshen College in Goshen, IN. In her late twenties, she moved to Bakersfield, CA where she was the Director of Nursing and Director of Inpatient Program Services at Kern View Community Mental Health Center and Hospital. During her years in Bakersfield, she also taught psychiatric–community mental health nursing at Bakersfield College.

Moving from Bakersfield to Tucson, AZ in 1971, she was employed by the University of Arizona College of Medicine (Department of Psychiatry) and the University Of Arizona College Of Nursing and by University Hospital as the Associate Director of Nursing for Psychiatry. During these years, she was certified by the American Nurses’ Association for excellence in clinical practice. Subsequent to this, she joined the American Nurses’ Association national certification test construction committee.

In 1976, Krall returned to Goshen College where she performed many different roles: Director of Student Counseling; Director of Student Life; Director of a student year abroad program in San Jose, Costa Rica; Professor or Nursing, Religion, and Psychology. She retired from teaching in 2004.

In retirement, she maintains a website (ruthkrall.com) where she publishes essays and books under the imprint of Enduring Space.

 Honors and Legacy 

Lilly Endowment of Indianapolis, Inc., Open Faculty Fellowship, 1995-1996. Research topic: Liturgy as Destroyer - Liturgy as Healer. The year’s research culminated in a self-published book, Inanna’s Way: Hiking among the Shadow Trees © 2009.

Scholar in Residence, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, 1995-1996.

Southern California School of Theology at Claremont President’s Award for Academic Excellence, Claremont, CA. 1990.

Charter member and Charter Chapter President, Sigma Theta Tau, Beta Mu Chapter, University of Arizona College of Nursing, 1974.

National Institute of Mental Health Scholarship, United States National Institutes of Mental Health, University of Cincinnati, College of Nursing, Cincinnati, OH.

Included in Who’s Who among Human Services Professionals, 3rd and 4th editions.

Included in Mayfield’s Who’s Who.

 Books and Articles 

Krall, R.E. (2018). Risking the Collective: Working Together – Justice Advocacy in Difficult Times. Enduring Space: www.ruthkrall.com

Krall, R. E. (2017). Clergy and Religious Leader Abuse of the Laity: Religious and Spiritual Consequences. Enduring Space: www.ruthkrall.com

Krall, R. E. with Lisa Schirch (2017). Living on the Edge of the Edge: Letters to a Younger Colleague. Victoria, Canada: Friesen Press.

Krall, R. E. (2016). Soul Betrayal: Spiritual and Religious Trauma. Enduring Space: www.ruthkrall.com

Krall, R. E. (June 14, 2016). Passive bystanders facilitate hate. Mennonite World Review Online. Retrieved from http://mennoworld.org/author/ruth-e-krall/

Krall, R. E. (2015). The Elephants in God’s Living Room, vol. four, Bearing the Unbearable – A Collection of Conversational Essays. Enduring Space, www.ruthkrall.com

Krall, R. E. (2014). The Elephants in Gods Living Room, vol. three, The Mennonite Church and John Howard Yoder. Enduring Space, www.ruthkrall.com

Krall, R. E. (2013). Inanna’s Way: A Personal Journey into the Underworld, in Stoltzfus, Michael J. and Greene, Rebecca and Schumm, Darla (Eds.). Chronic Illness, Spirituality, and Healing: Diverse Disciplinary Perspectives, Religious and Cultural Perspectives. New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Krall, R.E. (2012) The Elephants in God’s Living Room, vol. one, Institutional Clericalism, Institutional Issues.  Enduring Space: www.ruthkrall.com

Krall, R. E. (2009). Inanna’s Way: Hiking among the Shadow Trees. Enduring Space, www.ruthkrall.com

Holsopple, M. Y., Krall, R. E., and Pitman, S. W. (2005). Building Peace: Preventing Violence in our Communities. Geneva, Switzerland: World Council of Churches Press, 2005.

Krall, R. E. (2005). Nelle Morton Biographical Entry, in Ware, S. and Braukman, S. Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Vol. Five: Completing the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Belknapp Press.

Krall, R. E. (Spring, 1996). Anger and an Anabaptist Feminist Hermeneutic, Conrad Grebel Review 14(2), Spring, 1996, 145-63.

Krall, R. E. (1992). Christian Ideology, Rape and Women’s Post-rape Journeys, in Yoder, E.G. (Ed.). Occasional Papers # 16: Peace Theology and Violence against Women. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 76-92.

Krall, R. E. (1990). Rape’s Power to Dismember Women’s Lives: Personal realities and cultural forms. (PhD Dissertation, unpublished.) Claremont, CA:  Southern California School of Theology at Claremont.

 References 

Included in Feminists Who Changed the Face of America: 1963-1975. Barbara J. Love, (Ed.). Chicago, IL: The University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Byler, J. H. (August 16, 2004). Ruth Krall Retires from Goshen College After Teaching for More than Thirty Years. Goshen College Bulletin. Retrieved February 15, 2020 from https://www.goshen.edu/news/pressarchive/08-16-04-krall-retires.html

Krehbiel, S. Breaking Open the Structure of Sexual Violence: An Interview with Ruth Krall. Mennonite Life (69, Vol. 69).

Schirch, L. (2014). Afterword (pp. 377-395). Weaver, J. D. (Ed.). John Howard Yoder: Radical Theologian. Telford, PA: Cascadia Publishing.