Amish Grace

Amish Grace
Title Amish Grace PDF eBook
Author Donald B Kraybill
Publisher Wiley + ORM
Pages 250
Release 2010-03-11
Genre Religion
ISBN 0470873817

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“This intelligent, compassionate and hopeful book” examines an Amish community’s extraordinary response to a horrifying act of violence (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review). On October 2, 2006, a gunman named Charles Roberts entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. He took ten schoolgirls hostage, killing five and critically wounding the others before taking his own life. To explain his motivation, he told the children, “I’m angry at God for taking my little daughter.” By the following morning, as television crews swarmed the village, the Amish parents were already prepared to offer forgiveness. Soon, this extraordinary act of grace became a bigger story than the terrible crime that preceded it. Amish Grace explores the religious beliefs and habits that led the Amish to forgive so quickly. The authors examines the importance of forgiveness among cloistered communal societies and ask why this act of forgiveness became news among secular society. With insight and compassion, the authors contemplate how the Amish community’s witness could prove useful to the rest of us.




One Light Still Shines

One Light Still Shines
Title One Light Still Shines PDF eBook
Author Marie Monville
Publisher HarperChristian + ORM
Pages 280
Release 2013-09-30
Genre Religion
ISBN 0310336767

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“My story is not about my past, but about your future,” says Marie Roberts Monville. In the startling tragedy of the Amish schoolhouse shooting at Nickel Mines, one story has never been told; Marie Roberts Monville, the wife of the man who created such horror, tells her story for the very first time. It is a story of sorrow and destruction, but also one of majestic deliverance, unending compassion, breathtaking forgiveness, and grace-filled redemption. Within a solitary moment, Marie Monville realized that life, as she knew it, was over. What she never anticipated was a tangible encounter with God reaching into her circumstances, through them rewriting all she believed about herself, her faith, and the God she thought she knew. One Light Still Shines reveals three love stories: the innocent love of a devoted wife for a husband in pain, the incomprehensible love of God in the aftermath of massacre and destruction, and the redemptive love of Christ, waiting to unfold in the life of every person who reads this book. Marie's journey since that darkest of days has been invaded with light which shines through these pages into the darkest questions we all face--questions about our past, our value, our identity, and own powerlessness in this fallen world. Come face to face with the Power behind every answer—a love that begs to be received.




What the Amish Teach Us

What the Amish Teach Us
Title What the Amish Teach Us PDF eBook
Author Donald B. Kraybill
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 200
Release 2021-10-26
Genre History
ISBN 1421442175

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Think No Evil

Think No Evil
Title Think No Evil PDF eBook
Author Jonas Beiler
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 224
Release 2016-11-15
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 1501159070

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The authors present an inside look at the tragic events and astounding forgiveness surrounding the deadly October 2006 shooting at the Nickel Mines Amish schoolhouse.




The Amish Way

The Amish Way
Title The Amish Way PDF eBook
Author Donald B. Kraybill
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 295
Release 2012-02-07
Genre Religion
ISBN 111815276X

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A sensitive and realistic look at the spiritual life and practices of the Amish This second book by the authors of the award-winning Amish Grace sheds further light on the Amish, this time on their faith, spirituality, and spiritual practices. They interpret the distinctive practices of the Amish way of life and spirituality in their cultural context and explore their applicability for the wider world. Using a holistic perspective, the book tells the story of Amish religious experience in the words of the Amish themselves. Due to their long-standing friendships and relationships with Amish people, this author team may be the only set of interpreters able to provide an outsider-insider perspective. Provides a behind-the-scenes examination of Amish spiritual life Shows how the Amish practices can be applied to the wider world Written by authors with unprecedented access to the Amish community Written in a lively and engaging style, The Amish Way holds appeal for anyone who has wanted to know more about the inner workings of the Amish way of life.




Amish Grace

Amish Grace
Title Amish Grace PDF eBook
Author Donald B. Kraybill
Publisher Jossey-Bass Incorporated Pub
Pages 288
Release 2007-12-21
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780470185742

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Examines the Amish community's intention to forgive the man who killed five Amish children at the West Nickel Mines School in Pennsylvania in 2006, discussing how the Amish concept of forgiveness is part of their belief in pardon and reconciliation.




The Riddle of Amish Culture

The Riddle of Amish Culture
Title The Riddle of Amish Culture PDF eBook
Author Donald B. Kraybill
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 582
Release 2003-05-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 0801876311

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Revised edition of this classic work brings the story of the Amish into the 21st century. Since its publication in 1989, The Riddle of Amish Culture has become recognized as a classic work on one of America's most distinctive religious communities. But many changes have occurred within Amish society over the past decade, from westward migrations and a greater familiarity with technology to the dramatic shift away from farming into small business which is transforming Amish culture. For this revised edition, Donald B. Kraybill has taken these recent changes into account, incorporating new demographic research and new interviews he has conducted among the Amish. In addition, he includes a new chapter describing Amish recreation and social gatherings, and he applies the concept of "social capital" to his sensitive and penetrating interpretation of how the Amish have preserved their social networks and the solidarity of their community.