Praise for Amish Grace A story our polarized country needs to hear: It is still grace that saves. -- National Catholic Reporter Visit the authors\' Web site at www.amishgrace.com.
They have an obvious affection for the Amish yet ask tough questions, weigh contradictions, and explore conundrums such as how a loving God could permit schoolgirls to be massacred. -- Library Journal Professors Kraybill, Nolt, and Weaver-Zercher have written a superb book--a model of clear, forceful writing about a Tragedy and its aftermath.
Recommended. .blends history, current evaluation of American society, and an examination of what builds community into a seamless story that details the shootings while it probes the religious beliefs that led to such quick forgiving. . -- Philadelphia Magazine This balanced presentation .
Never preachy or treacly, it suggests a larger meditation more than apt in our time. --SISTER HELEN PREJEAN, author, Dead Man Walking Faced with the notorious Amish aversion to publicity, reporter after reporter turned to the authors...to answer one question: How could the Nickel Mines Amish so readily, so completely, forgive ? While the text provides a detailed account of the tragedy, its beauty lies in its discovery of Forgiveness as the crux of Amish culture.
In plain and beautiful prose, Amish Grace recounts the Amish witness and connects it to the heart of their spirituality. --BILL MOYERS, Public Affairs Television In a world where repaying evil with evil is almost second nature, the Amish remind us there\'s a better way.
Praise for Amish Grace A story our polarized country needs to hear: It is still grace that saves
