by K.F., Summer Intern | Published on Jul 12, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Entertainment
“Learning or reading is seen as detrimental, as they do not prepare a person with the practical skills and tastes needed for life in an Amish community.” – from a 1975 PBS documentary written, directed, and narrated by all Mennonite males and featuring all male interviewees
by L.W., Summer Intern | Published on Jul 11, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Culture, Amish Religion
A car is a modern convenience capable of driving the faithful down a road of sin.
by Althea Chokwe | Published on Jul 10, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Culture, Amish Religion
The charismatic televangelist industry and the upper echelons of the Amish Church are similar in their public relations apparatuses and financial hustling of others. Taking a look at these social institutions’ practices will give deep insight into Americans’ fallible infatuation with radical Christianity.
by V.B., Summer Intern | Published on Jul 9, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Culture, Wisconsin v. Yoder
The Amish scholars who have so prominently featured throughout Wisconsin v. Yoder and related propaganda efforts by the Christian right are not insidious because they are activists, but because they cloak themselves in the familiar cloak of an impartial witness.
by Althea Chokwe | Published on Jul 6, 2021 Last updated Dec 19, 2023 | Amish Entertainment
It is as if the documentary were looking at the Amish as a set of dolls, fitted with a dollhouse and toy carriages. This toy set exists for outer society to gaze at and admire, as they only feel nostalgia from children’s books and Biblical tales.