Amish horse and buggy on road in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in springtime. Horse and buggy are passing by a white fence with a ...

Those who decide the non-Amish life is for them are free to leave the community and are not shunned because they haven’t been baptized. They celebrate major holidays as we do. I asked about ...

She spent about two years researching and writing “Amish Weddings: From Courtship to Celebration,” talking ... compiled selections from “Family Life,” a monthly Amish magazine, in several ...

We spoke with a former Amish Community Member about what life was like growing up. We spoke with former Amish community member Raymond Lengacher about what life was like growing up in an Amish ...

Sadness, even in a child's life, makes joys richer ... Gloria Yoder is an Amish mom, writer and homemaker in rural Illinois. Readers can write to Gloria at 10510 E. 350th Ave., ...

There's something about the Amish people that has captured America's imagination. Source: America Magazine With their plain clothes and horse-drawn carriages, they portray an idealized notion of ...

The idea of “Rumspringa” has a specific spot in the American imagination. A rite of passage for young people in some Amish communities, Rumspringa is seen by most outsiders as a wild time away ...

It wasn’t until two months ago that he began experimenting with the platform describing life in an Amish community. That’s when the number of his followers began to creep upwards, now 70,000 ...

The Amish reject many aspects of modern life, preferring to take on humility and conformity as strict Christian values. While others are raised on TVs and driven to and from school by car ...