U.S. Justice Department intervenes to stop Sugar Grove Township from requiring Old Order Amish to abandon privies and connect ...

“I didn’t feel like I had the freedom to have a career or live life how I would have wanted.” Alisha claimed that being raised within the Amish community meant she was expected to get ...

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I sat down with a Mennonite counselor one day. Mennonites are like Amish, but have vehicles, they are a little more modern. My life changed that day. He taught me that there were other Amish ...

Amish women frequently organize and host events such as church services, weddings, and funerals, all of which are central to ...

The vast majority of teens in Rumspringa do not leave for urban life but live at home. Prime activities include dating, socializing with peers, testing traditional Amish boundaries (for some youth ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. But having one mutated copy of the gene may actually prove beneficial, according to the new study. Using death records to trace back facility histories in an ...

"Rules of a Godly Life" is a popular Pietist devotional source for the Amish. Comprised of 47 proverbs, this text was originally written in the early 18th century by a non-Amish author. The ...

Members of Old Order Amish community in Sugar Grove Township have long opposed local ordinances mandating that they abandon outhouses and connect residences to municipal sewer system U.S ...