Unlimited Slices of Pie
I was recently thinking over an event that happened to me. As I was hurting, praying, and trying to process it all, I went to my prayer closet and began reading the book Uninvited. I…
Conversations with Jehovah’s Witnesses, by J.D.M.
Dear Amish Voice, Greetings in the name of Jesus. I enjoyed your article, a while ago called “What Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Actually Believe?” We have delighted to invite Jehovah’s Witnesses in for Bible study and…
Belief of our Fathers: The End Times (Chapter 9)
This concludes a study on the beliefs of our forefathers, based largely on the 1632 Dordrecht Confession of Faith. This section tells about Eschatology, or the study of the end times. This has been edited for…
The Question That Changed My Life
I remember it like yesterday. It was the day that I “spilled the beans.” There I sat in the gazebo. It was late afternoon. The warm sunshine brightened the landscape around me. The birds were…
Softball and suspenders: Amish play ball in Florida
The procession of 3 wheel bicycles rolled down 17th Street before turning right into the 17th Street Softball complex. Once inside the drivers, either women wearing long skirts or men in long pants, shirts and…
Former Amish woman criticizes Columbia County’s handling of sexual assault cases
Torah Bontrager can’t stop fighting for closure. She recently said she wouldn’t be able to say how it might feel to never receive judicial retribution for the multiple violations she had to experience as an…
Protecting the Amish population in Ohio
Ohio has a substantial number of Amish residents. Some are in our own region. All too frequently, we have to report accidents in which motor vehicles have struck horse-draw buggies operated by the Amish. Ohio…
Amish-run business burns down on first day of operation
LAGRANGE, IN – The first day turned into a disaster at a new local business after fire that destroyed the building and equipment on Tuesday. More than a half-dozen fire departments responded to the early…
New Ohio law seeks to make Amish buggies more visible, reduce collisions
The bill would require animal-drawn vehicles to display these two things on top of the vehicle at all times. Failure to do so could result in a fine. Ohio’s “English” drivers must share the road…
The Amish use tech differently than you think. We should emulate them.
Technology promised to connect us but divided us instead. As people worry about smartphone addiction and vow to spend less time on their laptops, social media companies are scrambling to placate a world that has…