Amish category: 219 books
Pennsylvania Germans
An Interpretive Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Destined to become the standard reference on Pennsylvania Germans (also known as the "Pennsylvania Dutch"), this book is the first survey of this extensive American group in nearly seventy-five years. Nineteen broad interpretive essays written by a distinguished group of historians, anthropologists,...
The Complete Book of Dutch-ified English
An “Inwaluable” Introduction to an “Enchoyable” Accent of the “Inklish Lankwitch”
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A fun, fact-filled guide to the unique language and culture of the Pennsylvania Dutch!
In a book that includes both the first and second volumes of his popular title How to Speak Dutch-ified English, Pennsylvania Dutchman Gary Gates provides a glossary, read-aloud section, songs, recipes, and...
That Dorky Homemade Look
Quilting Lessons From A Parallel Universe
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Fed up with feeling like you can't meet the standards of the Quilt Police? Do you want to quilt for comfort and pleasure -- and not to win some high-falutin' quilting contest? Weary of worrying about what others will think of your color choices -- or your pieced points? Or your applique stitches?...
Stash Envy
And Other Quilting Confessions And Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Another book of quilting humor -- from the author of the ever-popular book "That Dorky Homemade Look!" Funny woman Lisa Boyer is an expert quilter. And she's determined to enjoy making quilts. In fact, she will not -- absolutely will not -- let the risk of making a mistake, or a less-than- perfect...
by Murray Pura
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Rose can't do anything about her church's decision to forbid her marriage to Ethan Daniels. But she can try and do something about another matter that upsets her - she can try and stop the hanging of Archibald Kendall, the man who did everything in his power to burn her at the stake. This makes no...
by Murray Pura
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Rose's best friend Lyda Belier is on trial for witchcraft and murder. As law was practised in Colonial America, Lydia's defense attorney can do little but watch the prosecution bring up witness after witness claiming to have seen Lydia do everything from fly a broom, change into a black cat, and...
by Murray Pura
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The winter snows may be falling on Lancaster County but the cold does not have a chilling effect on Rose Lantz or Ethan Daniels - their love for one another, suddenly set free, blossoms from day to day. There are hay rides and sleigh rides and learning to snowshoe. There is a surprise birthday...
by Murray Pura
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
It is the most dangerous day of Rose Lantz's life, the day most full of threat and hazard and harm. Yet it swiftly becomes one of the most wonderful days of her life, a day that shines with heroism, love, and blessing. At its close she is full of gratitude for what God has done. But in the midst...
The Headcovering
Just Plain Series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
What does the Bible have to say about the woman's Headcovering? Is it just a matter of opinion? Author, teacher, and historian Michael Bunker wanted to know, so over many years he studied everything he could find on the topic, even reading through copious volumes of ancient commentaries and writings...
Out of Darkness Book 3
Out of Darkness Serial, #3
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
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Sofia Angelis is a woman without a past. All she knows is that she's being hunted. When she stumbles, bloody and beaten, onto Abram Yoder's Lancaster County farm, she is not only given a chance at safety, but also the possibility...
The Anabaptists
Neither Catholics or Protestants
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The text of the following booklet was originally written by Bro. McGrath as a series of two articles for the SWORD AND TRUMPET in 1955 and 1956. Because of many requests for their reprinting, the publishers of THE FELLOWSHIP MESSENGER have arranged for the two articles to be reprinted now as one booklet,...
The Mystery of the Mark
Anabaptist Mission Work under the Fire of God
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Nothing says more about the state of Christianity in our time than how Christians do, or refuse to do, “mission work.” All the way from presenting the Gospel through entertainment (Christian movies and festivals) to preaching such a narrow, sectarian Gospel, based on such wobbly “fundamentals”...
The Scandal of Evangelicals and Homosexuality
English Evangelical Texts, 1960–2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
English evangelicals give the appearance of being a community at war, with each other and with the world around them. The issue of homosexuality is one of the key battlegrounds. How has this issue become so significant to evangelicals? Why is it provoking such violent responses? How is it changing...
Why Do They Dress That Way?
People's Place Book No. 7
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This unique book, by a man who has chosen to "dress plain," describes the history and use of hats, bonnets, dresses, overcoats, and other articles of clothing used by the various religious groups who wear plain garb. This is the first comprehensive book about why more than 150,000 persons in North...