If you’ve come to my Jill Szoo Wilson website as a result of a Wartburg Watch article, you’re welcome here. Some context may help.
- After a seven-month period involving motions, hearings, and legal proceedings, the case was dismissed with prejudice. I admitted no wrongdoing. There are no judgments against me.
- The affidavit was part of a settlement.
- I did not redact anything. I took the writing down.
- The initial matter has been settled for my family and me for nearly two years (as of the spring of 2026).
- My name appears in documents connected to the three lawsuits that followed, but I am neither a plaintiff nor a defendant in those cases.
- All of my writing focused on this: getting to the truth of what happened in my own story, and then processing the stories others began sharing with me in the pursuit of a larger truth.
- As I wrote many times from March 2025 to March 2026, God has granted my family, community, and me healing, restoration, and peace. My aim is to forgive everyone involved, and I have moved on. I hope the same for everyone else.
- Because forgiveness has been central to my writing for many years, I want to be clear about what that word means to me. Reconciliation is a two-way street that requires open discussion, an agreement to shared boundaries, and genuine repentance. Forgiveness is an individual decision made within the heart, the mind, and before God. It requires no agreement from the other person and can be revisited as needed.
Onward and upward!
Jill
Jill Szoo Wilson 