How do members of conservative Mennonite and Amish churches deal with usage of the internet? The Scribbler has asked Steven M. Nolt, director of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at ...
When Nolt was 27, she had what she described as a “spiritual rebirth” and decided to leave. She was excommunicated and kicked ...
MARTINDALE, Pa. -- In this bucolic corner of Lancaster County, Allen Hoover can use some modern conveniences approved by his church to help make his machine shop run smoothly: a telephone, a word ...
As a young Catholic coming of age in Eagle Creek, Oregon, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bill Idlewine took German classes and spent some time reading the Martin Luther translation of the ...
NEW HOLLAND, Pa. (AP) — For the first time in weeks, kids played in the church cemetery. Nearby, a group of men in their 20s reflected on what it meant to gather again during the pandemic. “Human ...
Plans to expand Earl Township’s growth boundaries by 565 acres by changing the status of mostly agricultural-zoned land are ...
OSAGE — Attorneys on Friday argued whether Mitchell County’s ordinance barring steel wheels on its hard-surfaced roads represents an unfair burden on Old Order Mennonites. Colin Murphy defended ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Milk from Old Order Mennonite mothers contained higher levels of antibodies against allergens compared with that ...
In the late 19th and early 20th century, modernity caught up with the Anabaptists. Under the cover of a dark September night in 1889, three children of Martin W. and Anna Zimmerman crawled into the ...