forgiveness
Amish Forgiveness on the Tenth Anniversary of a Tragedy
Numerous news stories at the end of last week focused on forgiveness, unusual in an autumn dominated, in the United States at least, by unforgiving attacks on political opponents. The occasion was the 10th anniversary, on Sunday October 2, of the Nickel Mines tragedy, when a deranged man murdered five Amish girls in a one-room […]
The Amish Project Performed Once Again
How could the Amish immediately forgive a man who had just gunned down ten of their girls in a local schoolroom, murdering five and then killing himself? Within hours after the shooting spree, the parents and relatives of the victims expressed their compassion for the killer and his family. Their attitude of forgiveness stunned millions […]
Amish Evangelists Preach Forgiveness
According to a Lancaster County news report last week, a group of nearly three dozen Anabaptists returned from a visit to Israel during the last week of November. The Amish, Mennonite, and Hutterite people from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Idaho, Canada, and Montana traveled to the Holy Land to try and develop positive relationships with the […]
Forgiveness after a Mass Murder
October second marks the fifth anniversary of the horrifying shootings in the Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, Amish schoolhouse, a tragedy that focused the attention of the world not only on another mass murder but also on the practice of forgiveness. Millions of people had a hard time believing that the Amish people could so quickly forgive […]
Televised Movie About Nickel Mines Distorts Amish Values
On Sunday night, the Lifetime Movie Channel broadcast the film “Amish Grace,” and, to judge by news stories and blog comments by those who were able to see it, it was controversial. When publicity about the movie surfaced weeks ago, the LMC defended its decision to produce a fictionalized account of the 2006 tragedy—a deranged […]
New TV Movie About Amish Forgiveness
The Lifetime Movie Network has prepared a film version about the murders of five Amish girls in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, schoolhouse and the forgiveness the families showed for the killer and his wife. Unfortunately, the made-for-television movie, due to be shown on Sunday, March 28, at 8:00 PM Eastern time (U.S.), misrepresents the real […]
