The Practice of Pluralism: Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730-1820 Children Revised and updated by Valerie

Revised and updated by Valerie Weaver-Zercher

New Testament in Pennsylvania Dutch and English with Psalms and Proverbs

Epic rescue of thousands of World War II ravaged Mennonite refugees

They refuse to baptize their babies and instead baptize adults on a confession of faith in Christ

Compelling examples of costly

The Practice of Pluralism: Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730-1820 Children Revised and updated by ValerieIn the early to mid eighteenth century, Lancaster stood apart as an active and religiously diverse, ethnically complex, and bustling city. On the eve of the American Revolution, Lancaster's population had risen to nearly three thousand inhabitants; it stood as a center of commerce, industry, and trade. While the German speaking population Anabaptists as well as German Lutherans, Moravians, and German Calvinists made up the majority, about one third