What do the traditional plain-Living Amish have to Teach twenty-first-century Americans in our hyper-everything world? As it turns out, quite a lot! It sounds audacious, but it\'s true: the Amish have much to Teach us.
Death: A Good Farewell.
Nonresistance: No Pushback 22.
Suffering: A Higher Plan 21.
Forgiveness: Pathway to Healing 20.
Retirement: Aging in Place 19.
Rituals: A Natural Detox 18.
Limits: Less Choice, More Joy 17.
Patience: Slow Down and Listen 16.
Entrepreneurs: Starting Stuff 15.
Hacking: Creative Bypasses 14.
Technology: Taming the Beast 13.
Apprenticeship: An Old New Idea 12.
Education: The Way It Should Be 11.
Parenting: Raising Sturdy Children 10.
Children: At Worship, Work, and Play 9.
Family: A Deep and Durable Bond 8.
Spirituality: A Back Road to Heaven 7.
Tolerance: A Light on a Hill 6.
Smallness: Bigness Ruins Everything 5.
Community: Taming the Big I 4.
Villages: Webs of Well-Being 3.
Riddles: Negotiating with Modernity 2.
In a time when civil discourse is raw and coarse and our social fabric seems torn asunder, What the Amish Teach Us uproots our assumptions about progress and prods us to question why we do What we do.
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Pairing storytelling with informative and reflective passages, these twenty-two essays offer a critique of modern culture that is provocative yet practical.
Kraybill also explains how the Amish function in modern society by rejecting new developments that harm their community, accepting those that enhance it, and adapting others to fit their values.
They have also out-Ubered Uber for nearly a century, hiring cars owned and operated by their neighbors.
The Amish are ahead of us, for example, in relying on apprenticeship education.
In this inspiring book, we learn intriguing truths about community, family, education, faith, forgiveness, aging, and death from real Amish men and women.
Kraybill is in a unique position to share important lessons from these fascinating Plain people.
Having spent four decades researching Amish communities, Donald B.
Still, their wisdom confirms that even when they seem so far behind, they\'re out ahead of the rest of us.
It may seem surreal to turn to one of America\'s most traditional groups for lessons about Living in a hyper-tech world--especially a horse-driving people who resist progress by snubbing cars, public grid power, and high school education.
What do the traditional plain-Living Amish have to Teach twenty-first-century Americans in our hyper-everything world? As it turns out, quite a lot! It sounds audacious, but it\'s true: the Amish have much to Teach us
