MennoLink Books and Music

In the four decades covered, American Mennonites nearly doubled in membership. Their encounters with Protestant revivalism, organizational techniques, modernism, and World War I affected each group differently. Volume 3.

Paul Toews examines ways progressive Mennonites have slowed their absorption into American culture through creating institutional systems, refining and rearticulating ideologies, building ecumenical alliances, and developing a service and missional activism. Meanwhile, the Amish have formed a creative set of adaptive strategies that permit economic integration and social isolation.

An in-depth look at how Mennonites nad Amish were able to become a more visible and respected people than ever before during their more than 300 years in America. Volume 4.

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Songs include: Ausbund p. 354, part I; (harmonica) In the Sweet By and By; Each Day I'll Do a Golden Deed; (zither) half slow tune; Ausbund 354 pt. II; (harmonica) Work for the Night is Coming; trio) His Love is an Endless Love; Ausbund 378; Chant preaching excerpt; O Gott Vater; (harmonica) Let Us Pray for Each Other; (harmonica) Nellie Gray; Ausbund p. 217; (zither) half slow tune; Ausbund p. 604 pt I; Chanted prayer excerpt; Ausbund pt 604 part II; (harmonica) Must I Go Away Empty Handed; (trio) Daddy's Hands; Thy Ways Are Not My Ways; When the Day is Ended; (harmonica) I Need No Mansion Here Below.

Over 700,000 copies of earlier editions of this booklet have been sold. Now this completely revised edition maintains the qualitlies which have made The Amish popular for a generation while updating the text and photos for the 1990's. Revised 1995.

This album represents a sampling of folk and hymn tunes Amish enjoy on the harmonica. They probably were first learned in school from non-Amish teachers before Amish established their own schools in the 1950's. Tunes on this recording have slight variations, a legacy from the persecution of the past centuries.

The harmonica is played by a young wife and mother. She played these songs as a teenager when she was "running around" with the young people at singings. The harmonica is the same one she used as a teenager, with no half steps. She now lives in a more liberal community where recording is permitted if done anonymously.

Copyright 2001.

Copyright 1995 Herald Press

Copyright 2008 Herald Press

But in other Pennsylvania Amish settlements buggies can be black, white or even yellow. The religious paths these Amish communities travel can be strikingly diverse. What emerges is a mosaic of Amish life and practice quite different from the common Amish stereotype.

Finacial pressures have forced the majority of the Amish to forsake farming for more lucrative business enterprises. Business owners tend to adopt technology more rapidly than farmers, leading to a mini- industrial revolution. Amish-style Buggies, once built of wood, now are often built of fiberglass. With more adults working in industries, family dynamics are beginning to change.

Buller's camera captures the changes sweeping across the Amish landscape. His interviews with authors/professors/researches Donald B Kraybill and Steven M Nolt provide uncommon insight into the Amish mindset.

Experience Amish farm life, family life, business enterprises, childhood, school, worship, horse cultures, business practices, barn raising, rumspringa (running around), Florida vacations, women's roles and more. Includes Amish response to Nickel Mines tragedy.

Copyright 2007 Buller Films LLC.