amish

  • Dr. Karen Johnson-Weiner on her decades of experience with the Amish

    On Oct. 8, 2020 Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist s Studies’ Steven Nolt gave a virtual live interview with Dr. Karen Johnson-Weiner on her extensive experience with various North American Old Order groups. Johnson-Weiner is currently a Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Anthropology, SUNY Potsdam and has been extensively studying and corresponding

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  • Professor emeritus shares stories from 30 years work with Amish

    Professor emeritus shares stories from 30 years work with Amish

    The evening of Thursday, Feb. 7 the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies hosted its first event since the reopening of the center following the remodeling and expansion. The event was a lecture from distinguished college professor and Senior Fellow Emeritus Donald Kraybill and was titled “’I Just Want a Red Convertible’: Surprising Stories

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  • Award winner talks about stories, history behind Amish quilt-making

    Award winner talks about stories, history behind Amish quilt-making

    Dale Brown Book Award winner Dr. Janneken Smucker spoke at Elizabethtown College Tuesday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Smucker, author and associate professor of History at West Chester University, wrote a book titled “Amish Quilts.” The award is given to an individual who advances Anabaptist or pious religions. “I knew that there would be interest

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  • New law in Pa. keeps Amish from casting their vote

    New law in Pa. keeps Amish from casting their vote

    On March 14, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed a new law, joining Pennsylvania with Indiana, Kansas, Tennessee and Georgia as having the strictest voter identification requirement in the United States. Republicans are advocating the law as a way to avoid voter fraud. However, Attorney General Eric Holder strongly opposes the law, believing the law discriminates

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  • The Thrill of the Chaste: lecture highlights Amish novel allure

    We have all seen them. There is no point in denying it­­­—for fifty cents in cardboard boxes at yard sales, or shoved rudely in the magazine aisle of the grocery store, or on the sad, half empty bookshelves of our sad, half-empty Kmart. This is a genre as perplexing as it is intriguing: the Amish

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