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The Amish: A People of PreservationView
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by John Ruth
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Dvd
John Ruth's award-winning video/DVD on Amish faith and life. Revised in 1996. The sound track has some excerpts of rarely recorded Amish preaching and singing. 
A Quiet and Peaceable LifeView
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Poetry
John Ruth, a Mennonite and storyteller/historian, captures the spirit of Old Order Mennonites and Amish groups in his essays, along with photographs, poetry, and quotations 
Forgiveness: A Legacy of the West Nickel Mines Amish SchoolView
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Lancaster County
John L Ruth's sensitive and thoughtful meditation on the horrific events of October 2, 2006, reflects on the response of the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where a gunman killed himself, five school children, and wounded five others. The tragic crime evoked expressions of shock and sympathy worldwide. But even many Christians were stunned when the Amish community, in the midst of its grieving, offered words of forgiveness toward the dead killer and his family.

Copyright 2007 Herald Press

 
The Earth is the Lord's: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite ConferenceView
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by John Ruth
  hardcover with paper jacket, 1,300 pages, $69.95
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Lancaster County
Genealogy
Until now, the lush fields of the largest Mennonite community outside Europe have not been matched by a richness of recorded memory. An earlier general history of Lancaster Conference (1931) made little attempt to explain the community's ancestry. In The Earth is the Lord's, however, a story-laden past unfolds dramatically.

Starting with the 1614 execution of Hans Landis in Zurich, the narrative explores troubles in Bern and follows Anabaptists to Alsace and the Palatinate, and on to America, as the future Lancaster County's first Mennonists arrive in Philadelphia in 1710. The story reaches to 1977, when Lancaster Mennonite Conference adopted a new constitution.

The fruit of much patient work by family historians and computer-aided genealogists finds its way into this story. John Ruth adds folk memory to extensive documentation and careful explanation of key beliefs and practices, painting a picture of unprecedented detail, enriched by photos (240), maps (23), illustrations, index, extensive bibliography and notes.

This book is an indispensable source on its subject, with lists of early immigrants, congregations, ordinations, and conference officers up to 1977, and a general chronology.

Copyright 2001.

 

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