Nickel Mines
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 […]
Performances of Amish Play to Continue into Mid July
Performances of The Amish Project, a one-woman, off-Broadway play, which opened to favorable reviews several weeks ago, are going to be extended two weeks beyond the original closing date. Written by and starring Jessica Dickey, the play features portrayals of fictional Amish characters involved in a mass murder of school girls—patterned, of course, on the […]
New Play Dramatizes Amish Forgiveness
An Off Broadway play about the tragic Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting in October 2006 opened last Wednesday at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York City. Sarah Cameron Sunde directs the production, The Amish Project, which was written and solo acted by Jessica Dickey. It is a fictionalized presentation of the compassion and forgiveness displayed […]
Peace Conference Begins with Speech about the Amish
Donald Kraybill opened the annual conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association in Elizabethtown, PA, on September 27 with an exciting speech about the Amish and their patterns of forgiveness. The first half of his presentation focused on the factors that shape and preserve Amish community identity, an appropriate topic for a conference with […]
New Book Examines Amish Forgiveness
Donald Kraybill is coming out with a new book about the way the Amish spontaneously forgave the killer after the West Nickel Mines shooting tragedy last October. Kraybill spoke about his forthcoming book Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, and the phenomenon of forgiveness, at the quarterly meeting of the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society on […]
Violence in an Amish School
Fall shooting season in America took a horrifying turn on Monday morning when a deranged man shot and killed a number of Amish girls in a one-room schoolhouse. The 32 year old man, Charles Carl Roberts, IV, left suicide notes for his family, took three guns into a one-room Amish school near his home in […]
