Plain and Simple?

Plain and Simple?

The Old Order Amish are famously “plain” (their preferred descriptor), but their lives are anything but simple. A dozen participants in a recent Good Faith Experience encounter with multiple Amish families learned just how complicated the “plain” life can be....
Count Each Day

Count Each Day

There was something notably different about the gravestones in the Myer Homestead cemetery than the markers seen in so many other burial places. Established in 1759, the cemetery — with both aging headstones and freshly turned dirt — serves as the final resting place...
Too Late Schmardt

Too Late Schmardt

A few days among the Amish can bring helpful perspective to those of us who happily turn darkness to light with the flip of a switch, hop into the car for a quick run to the grocery store, or pay the bills with a few taps on our smartphones. In an Amish home, a 2:00...