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Amish make decisions about health, education, and relationships based on their Biblical interpretation. Amish life has influenced some things in popular culture. As the Amish are divided into the Old Order Amish, New Order Amish, and Beachy Amish, the way of life of families depends on the rule of the church community to which they belong.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. It has been suggested that this article be merged with Amish in Canada. (Discuss) Proposed since December 2024. Group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships This article is about a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships. For other uses, see Amish (disambiguation ...
Motorized vehicles are not to be owned or driven. The Amish may request a neighbor to drive them, or may hire a driver and rent a car. The Amish may not travel on an airplane. Clothing codes are to be followed: Males are to wear hats when outside. Black is for the winter, straw color is for the warmer months. Suspenders, not belts, keep up the ...
The Amish use credit cards, just like the rest of us. If you just know a little of the usual stuff about the Amish, that sounds so hard to believe at first. After all, the Amish are known for ...
Charles Hurst and David McConnell: An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2010 ISBN 9780801893988; Joe Mackall: Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish, Boston, Mass. 2007. ISBN 9780807010648 (Account of a neighbor and friend to a Swartzentruber family)
But an information line set up by the Amish community details the names and ages of the eight victims from Virginia: James McCoy, around 45. He was the driver of the van from Pounding Mill, Virginia.
The Kauffman Amish, also called Sleeping Preacher Churches or Tampico Amish Mennonite Churches, are a Plain, car-driving branch of the Amish Mennonites whose tradition goes back to John D. Kauffman (1847–1913) who preached while being in a state of trance and who was seen as a "sleeping preacher".
Three Amish children were killed and a fourth was critically injured after a car crashed into their horse-drawn buggy on Wednesday.