July 2010

Blogs and Websites about Amish

I am discovering there are quite a few blogs and websites about Amish. I will list the ones I know about.  The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies has an Amish Studies website with a newly updated statistics page. The surprise in it is that Lancaster, Pennsylvania has surpassed Holmes County, Ohio in Amish population. Author of Success Made […]

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The Ramifications of Wisconsin vs. Yoder

In the 1972 landmark United States Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder, a decision made by the Wisconsin Supreme Court was upheld when it was decided that the Amish should be exempt from compulsory education, based on their right to exercise their religious freedom. The principle opinions clearly rested on the religious rights of the parents. In neither of the majority opinions

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Accepting the Amish Ways

Susan J. Reinhardt asked: Do the Amish deny young people educational opportunities because of their religious beliefs or is to to keep them from leaving the community?  Wow, Susan, this is a succinct, yet tough question. I've been thinking about how to answer it for the last day and a half. In fact, I had a conversation with one of

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Amish and Education

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   There are few Amish rules I deem to be outright “wrong.” However, there is one that I feel passionately about, and that is the one that limits Amish young people from going to school beyond the eighth grade. Many

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How Much Sacrifice?

In my last post I ended by writing how I think the fact that few Amish question their way of life as being both a strength and a weakness — the strength being cohesion of the group, but the weakness being that without dissidents, there is a tendency towards “groupthink.” Unfortunately, or fortunately, the reason I’m here and not there

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