Breakaway Amish: Growing Up with the Bergholz Beard Cutters Folk Art This comprehensive landmark account identifies

This comprehensive landmark account identifies

Traces ten generations of Earnests from immigrant Wilhelm Ernst in southeastern Pennsylvania to the Far West

and sometimes personal vignettes

Well-chosen case studies explore interfaith bridge building for relief

This book sets out to recover the theological tradition of Mennonites and other communities within the Anabaptist stream

Breakaway Amish: Growing Up with the Bergholz Beard Cutters Folk Art This comprehensive landmark account identifiesJohnny Mast tells in riveting detail how his Amish community became increasingly isolated from other Amish people, and how the wishes and edicts of his grandfather, Bishop Sam Mullet, overtook daily life in the group. Here is an eyewitness account of the disturbing events at Bergholz, an Amish community gone awry. Yet redemption dwells even here, in the bravery and conviction of one who chose to break free. Paperback. Herald Press Mennonite Media,