Limitations on Amish life are dictated by the Ordnung, which is what the Amish call the unwritten set of rules and regulations that dictates their day-to-day life. The Ordnung deals with a wide variety of topics, such as clothing, transportation, technology, education, and much more. Passed along through an oral tradition, the Ordnung by necessity [...]
Happy Sunday, Amish Readers! As believers gather today to worship together, I thought I’d share these thoughts on faith from A Pocket Guide to Amish Life by Mindy Starns Clark… To best understand Amish life, it helps to grasp the basic values that guide almost every facet of their faith. The Amish… –surrender the self-will [...]
Though few of us would choose to limit our clothing options as severely as the Amish have, there is something to be said for the simplicity of the Amish way of dressing. Think about the amount of time you spend on clothing–shopping for it, coordinating outfits, cleaning it, storing it, finding the right shoes and [...]
Author Mindy Starns Clark shares some wonderful insights regarding our technology choices in today’s post, taken from her helpful little book A Pocket Guide to Amish Life. On a recent vacation to upstate New York, my family and I stayed in a cottage near Lake Champlain. The place was surrounded by all sorts of opportunities [...]
The following excerpt is from an article on my website about the Amish school shooting. It was written as supplemental material for my book A Pocket Guide to Amish Life, but given the Lifetime movie of the same topic, I thought I might post some of it here as well. ************** A New Normal Recently, I dined [...]
