What do the traditional plain-living Amish have to teach
twenty-first-century Americans in our hyper-everything world? As it
turns out, quite a lot! It sounds audacious, but it's true: the
Amish have much to teach us. It may seem surreal to turn to one of
America's most traditional groups for lessons about living in a
hyper-tech world-especially a horse-driving people who resist
"progress" by snubbing cars, public grid power, and high school
education. Still, their wisdom confirms that even when they seem so
far behind, they're out ahead of the rest of us. Having spent four
decades researching Amish communities, Donald B. Kraybill is in a
unique position to share important lessons from these fascinating
Plain people. In this inspiring book, we learn intriguing truths
about community, family, education, faith, forgiveness, aging, and
death from real Amish men and women. The Amish are ahead of us, for
example, in relying on apprenticeship education. They have also
out-Ubered Uber for nearly a century, hiring cars owned and
operated by their neighbors. Kraybill also explains how the Amish
function in modern society by rejecting new developments that harm
their community, accepting those that enhance it, and adapting
others to fit their values. Pairing storytelling with informative
and reflective passages, these twenty-two essays offer a critique
of modern culture that is provocative yet practical. In a time when
civil discourse is raw and coarse and our social fabric seems torn
asunder, What the Amish Teach Us uproots our assumptions about
progress and prods us to question why we do what we do. Essays
include: 1. Riddles: Negotiating with Modernity 2. Villages: Webs
of Well-Being 3. Community: Taming the Big "I" 4. Smallness:
Bigness Ruins Everything 5. Tolerance: A Light on a Hill 6.
Spirituality: A Back Road to Heaven 7. Family: A Deep and Durable
Bond 8. Children: At Worship, Work, and Play 9. Parenting: Raising
Sturdy Children 10. Education: The Way It Should Be 11.
Apprenticeship: An Old New Idea 12. Technology: Taming the Beast
13. Hacking: Creative Bypasses 14. Entrepreneurs: Starting Stuff
15. Patience: Slow Down and Listen 16. Limits: Less Choice, More
Joy 17. Rituals: A Natural Detox 18. Retirement: Aging in Place 19.
Forgiveness: Pathway to Healing 20. Suffering: A Higher Plan 21.
Nonresistance: No Pushback 22. Death: A Good Farewell
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