Conversations at the local, Central Pennsylvania, Amish farm stand can sometimes be quite revealing—at least to “English” visitors who listen carefully to what the proprietors are saying. A comment last week about a growing family led to the observation by a customer that a recent study from the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies […]

An Amish newspaper, The Budget, proposed moving its content onto the Internet but subscribers responded angrily to the suggestion. According to an AP story last week, local Ohio news where the paper is published (Sugarcreek, in Eastern Ohio) is already made available digitally, but the rest of the newspaper, a national edition, will continue to […]