Brad Igou offers writings by Amish people across North America, compiled from the first 25 years of Family Life, a monthly Amish magazine. He includes letters, articles, history lessons, parables, questions, challenges - a wide spectrum of human experience, from an Amish point of view. Here you can read what the Amish say about themselves. Sixteen chapters cover fascinating topics such as shunning, nonresistance, clothing, youth activities, conflicts with the modern world, education, work, humor, and lessons from life.

Why another book about the Amish? Each year brings academic studies and personal reflections on Amish friends. Here you can read what the Amish say about you themselves.

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, questions, challenges -- a wide spectrum of human experience, from an Amish point of view.

Sixteen chapters cover fascinating topics such as shunning, nonresistance, clothing, youth activities, old age, conflicts with the modem 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.

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