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| Brad igou offers writings by Amish people across North America, compiled from the first 25 years (1968-92) of Family Life, a monthly Amish magazine. He includes letters, articles, history lessons, parables, challenges--a wide spectrum of human experience, from an Amish pint of view. Sixteen chapters cover fascinating topics such as shunning, nonresistance, clothing, youth activities, old age, conflicts with the modern world, Amish beginnings, controversies, education, work church, mutual aid, food, humor, and lessons from life. You will understand, think. Laugh, cry, and be touched in a personal way by a people focused on living for God. These humble folk write with simple directness. Open this book and explore the unique world of the Amish, their history, their church community, their challenges, joys, and sorrows as only they can tell it--in their own words. Available the end of September 1999. | |