The parents of the 24-year-old woman have decided that the entire family will vote. Several Old Order Mennonite women, all senior citizens, registered to vote at last month s West Lampeter Fair.

Copies of Old Order Amish legal filings challenging Sugar Grove Township’s attempts to force the Amish to hook up to sewer lines are pictured. Times Observer file photo After years of legal wrangling, ...

"God will wipe away every tear, there shall be no more death, mourning or weeping." After all its extravagant symbolism, the Book of Revelation ends with this dangerously comforting vision of God's ...

For the first time in weeks, kids played in the church cemetery. Nearby, a group of men in their 20s reflected on what it meant to gather again during the pandemic. “Human health is important,” one of ...

WHEN ARTHUR Schlesinger Jr. published the first volume of his Age of Roosevelt series in 1957, he titled it The Crisis of the Old Order. He devoted a considerable portion of the book to a description ...

Italian philosopher and politician Antonio Gramsci warned that when an old order is dying and a new one has yet to be born, politics enters an interregnum — an unstable period in which familiar rules ...

James Rhodes and his wife Mary Ethel are Old Order Mennonites, born and raised near the farm town of Dayton, Virginia. Like the Amish, the “Plain People” favor church and community over modern ...

Many Old Order Amish read books and newspapers. If you don’t spend your time watching the world fall apart on the internet or TV, you have more time to read printed matter. Every Old Order family owns ...