I was reporting on an education conference in a downtown Washington hotel when I noticed TV monitors in the lobby were turned on to CNN and Fox news and broadcasters were reporting on an attack on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 30—CROGHAN — The Adirondack Mennonite Heritage Association (AMHA) is hosting the 33rd Zwanzigstein (twenty stones) Fest of ".

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “An Amish Sin,” a Lifetime film that released Oct. 29 2022, is loosely based on the story of Joanna Yoder, a Tennessee resident ...

Sunday church service in Amish country is more than just belting out hymns, reading Bible passages and returning home an hour later to catch a football game or nap. It's an all-day affair: A host ...

A young woman has told how she has fled the Amish community and had her haircut and wore a pair of jeans for the first time. Alisha Green, 26, was a generational member of the Amish and Mennonite ...

Making sense of the colorful, complex tapestry of Amish, Mennonites, and Brethren. Tourists in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania tend to assume that they are at the center of the Anabaptist world (not ...

Raised in a strict Reformed Mennonite community in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Bear was trained to become a wife, mother — and little else. "My mother wore long dark dresses and a white bonnet," the ...

As survivors of child sexual abuse gathered on the front steps of the Pennsylvania Capitol to advocate for the passage of legislation allowing legal action against sexual abusers, Rep. Mark Rozzi, ...

Let me make one thing clear from the start. When Grumpy and I set out to discover more about the Amish and Mennonites, we were never intending to live like them. It’s just I always find it more fun to ...

Knowing the nuances of the flavors only comes from living and growing up inside each group. But like ice cream, there are some differences you can tell just by sight. The following list describes the ...

Plain People is an umbrella term for various Amish and Old Order Mennonite groups who set themselves apart from the modern world in different ways. The groups are offshoots of the Anabaptist movement ...