Film depicting Nickel Mines shootings questioned (Cindy Stauffer, Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, 03/01/2010) ran frontpage in south central PA the day after Donald Kraybill, one of the authors of Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, spoke for the Emerging Scholars Network in partnership with Elizabethtown Brethren in Christ (click here). If you are unfamiliar with the Amish and you are interested in learning more, I encourage you to begin by
- reading a copy of Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy — available in hardback, paperback, Kindle. Note: the Amish Grace web site is a rich resource and All author royalties are going to Mennonite Central Committee for their ministries to children.
- visiting the Amish Studies web site — maintained by the Young Center for Anabaptist & Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College (PA). Note: Donald Kraybill is Distinguished College Professor and Senior Fellow in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College (PA). He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Temple University.
- watching The Amish (American Experience) and exploring the materials available the website.
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