David L Weaver Zercher: 3 books
Martyrs Mirror
A Social History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Approximately 2,500 Anabaptists were martyred in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe. Their surviving brethren compiled stories of those who suffered and died for the faith into martyr books. The most historically and culturally significant of these, The Bloody Theater—more commonly...
Amish Grace
How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
On Monday morning, October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. In front of twenty-five horrified pupils, thirty-two-year-old Charles Roberts ordered the boys and the teacher to leave. After tying the legs of the ten remaining girls, Roberts prepared to...
The Amish Way
Patient Faith in a Perilous World
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
A sensitive and realistic look at the spiritual life and practices of the Amish
This second book by the authors of the award-winning Amish Grace sheds further light on the Amish, this time on their faith, spirituality, and spiritual practices. They interpret the distinctive practices of the...