A History of the Amish

While the Old Order Amish are hardly isolated from modern society, they remain decidedly out-of-step with twenty-first century North American culture.

For many Americans, the early 1960s seemed an era of buoyant optimism and impressive progress.

“Surely Christ would not have led a homeless poor life as he did” if it wasn’t “necessary for a follower of Christ to live a humble life” as well, Miller reasoned, but in a society celebrating abundance it was difficult to explain why her family did not seek “anything more than what is needed to live.”