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Expert: Beard cutters not Amish

They have beards and buggies, but a leading expert on the Amish says the Bergholz, Ohio, group that conducted a series of retaliatory beard-cutting attacks in 2011 near the Pennsylvania border should not be considered Amish.

Donald B. Kraybill, the senior fellow of Elizabethtown (Pa.) College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, said the Bergholz clan ceased to be Amish because they used punitive force and stopped holding regular church services, among other reasons.
Pastor refuses to testify to grand jury

Beachy Amish Mennonite pastor Kenneth Miller of Stuarts Draft, Va., has been jailed ahead of his March 4 sentencing.
Conference to look at Amish and tech

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College will hold an international conference, “Amish America: Plain Technology in a Cyber World,” June 6-8.

Goshen grad helps former Amish realize college dreams

GOSHEN, Ind. — What happens when a needy student cannot get financial aid? Like other students of Amish descent, Naomi Kramer, a 2012 graduate of Goshen College, faced that dilemma because her parents did not support her decision to attend college.

Bipolar disorder more common among the Amish

The link between genetics and mental illness continues to engage Abram Hostetter, a psychiatrist in his fourth decade of world-recognized research into why Old Order Amish are more susceptible to bipolar disorder than the general population.
For fast-growing Amish, a changing life

MILLERSBURG, Ohio — For Jacob Beachy, life moves along much as it always has. Every day, there are the 35 cows that need tending, and 90 acres of farmland. His is the life of an Amish farmer, in which family, work and faith intertwine on one plot of Ohio land.

Delegation returns to Israel

A group of 27 Anabaptists returned to Israel Nov. 18-25 to continue a reconciliation process begun with a written apology delivered two years ago.

Amish sect clings together after beard-cutting convictions

BERGHOLZ, Ohio — Inside a one-room schoolhouse, Lizzie Mullet pulls her attention away from her students and focuses on the biggest issue facing them: their families.

Nebraskans keep up distant cemetery, and memory

O’NEILL, Neb. — For nearly 60 years, members of Beemer Mennonite Church have tended a small rural cemetery where a number of their ancestors are buried.

16 Amish guilty of hate crimes in beard-cutting attacks

CLEVELAND — Amish bishop Samuel Mullet was convicted Sept. 20 of federal hate crimes and conspiracy for exhorting followers to forcibly shear the hair and beards of those who opposed his breakaway Ohio sect.