Success Made Simple in FAST COMPANY today

ByErik Wesner April 1, 2010June 21, 2014

What an honor–the book is leading off the Fast Company website today (no joke)! Check out the Amish customer tips slideshow they put together. And thanks to Cindy, Rick, and Pop for chipping in a few photos!

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An Amish America Q-and-A with Professor Donald Kraybill

Byerik July 14, 2008January 7, 2011

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Donald Kraybill has written and edited over 20 books and dozens of professional articles on the Old Order Amish, Mennonites, and other Anabaptist peoples, and is the Senior Fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In addition to his current projects, Professor Kraybill has spent recent months in locations from Texas to Vancouver promoting Amish…

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Saloma Miller Furlong on Bonnet Strings (Giveaway)

ByErik Wesner March 17, 2014August 5, 2023

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Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman’s Ties to Two Worlds is the new memoir by Saloma Miller Furlong. You might know Saloma from her blog, previous book Why I Left the Amish, or more recently, from the PBS film The Amish: Shunned. In today’s interview, Saloma discusses topics including Bonnet Strings, her former community, and The Amish: Shunned. Bonnet Strings 2-Book Giveaway Saloma and Herald Press are…

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The Amish Way: 10 contest winners and book excerpt

ByErik Wesner October 13, 2010November 4, 2010

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I’m happy to share the Amish Way winners with you today. It was a lot of fun to run this contest and I much enjoyed the interview with authors Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt, and David Weaver-Zercher (if you missed it: Part 1 and Part 2). I particularly appreciated the point they make about shunning–that it is the “flip side to the community barn raising that…

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Amish in Japan? Well, almost.

Byerik June 18, 2009February 23, 2011

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Pastry samples at a Flavor retail store Donald Kraybill shares some photos and comments from a recent lecture trip to Japan. Professor Kraybill recently spent a week at universities in Tokyo and Gifu and at the Shibunkaku Art Museum in Kyoto, speaking on the Amish. The Amish are quite well-known in Japan, with perhaps more books on the Amish having been translated into Japanese than…

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Preview: PBS/American Experience special ‘The Amish’

ByErik Wesner January 27, 2012January 27, 2012

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In yesterday’s interview, Saloma mentioned an upcoming PBS special on the Amish, part of the American Experience series. American Experience has a good reputation for in-depth documentary films, mainly of a historical nature. “The Amish” is a 2-hour film described as “an extraordinarily intimate portrait of contemporary Amish faith and life”. Quite a few Amish participated as well as numerous experts on the Amish….

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Amish tax myths

Byerik March 19, 2007January 29, 2011

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‘The Amish don’t pay taxes. They’re freeloaders.’ Ryan Robinson of the Lancaster New Era writes (no longer available) that myths such as these persist, apparently even among long-time neighbors of the Amish. Why the confusion? Amish are generally exempt from paying Social Security taxes, a privilege negotiated some years ago with the federal government. But at the same time they also refrain from receiving benefits….