Nickel Mines Pensylvania School Shooting The Former Amish Respond Note: The following responses came from former Amish people who questioned how the Amish were able to forgive the man who walked into a schoolhouse in Nickel…
ONE week ago the tiny Amish community of Nickel Mines lived in peaceful isolation from the evils of the modern world. That innocent idyll was cruelly shattered by crazed gunman Charles Carl Roberts. Now one…
Seeking AlternativesStory Roberta Chinn When Albert Miller finished college and applied to medical schools across the country, he got his very first rejection letter from the school he wanted to attend. Instead of accepting his…
ANNE BEILER Founder of Auntie Anne’s Pretzels Founder of Auntie Anne’s Pretzels and Author of Twist of Faith was educated until the 8th grade in a small Amish school in PA. Her close-knit family celebrated…
A few weeks before we left the Amish I had a few scares that I can’t get to heaven! But just thought I have to be more strict in the Amish law. But then 4…
I was raised Amish, under a strict law and thought as long as I follow the rules as good as I can I could hope to be in Heaven sometime. But their were a lot…
2006 December 12, 2006 – Ohio: Petition to Stop Speed Trap November 20, 2006 – Amish tale wins selection for reading program November 18, 2006 – Amish family helps create timber-frame structure November 18, 2006…
My name is Ryan White, (my birth name was Eli Hostettler). I just found your wonderful ministry 2 days ago and I have been reading everything on your website. I couldn’t wait any longer so…
Letter From Lovina’s Mother: …oh, we’d so much love to have your children. It hurts so deep in our hearts to hear what you are doing! Just think what you are doing, just THINK, to…
Impressed by their piety, courts have permitted the Amish to live outside the law. But in some places, the group’s ethic of forgive and forget has produced a plague of incest—and let many perpetrators go…
