How do members of conservative Mennonite and Amish churches deal with usage of the internet? The Scribbler has asked Steven M. Nolt, director of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at ...

Pennsylvania’s public schools are not alone in considering banning cellphone use during the school day. Old Order Mennonites want Amish children to stop bringing their cellphones to a combination ...

NEW HOLLAND, Pa. (AP) — For the first time in weeks, kids played in the church cemetery. Nearby, a group of men in their 20s reflected on what it meant to gather again during the pandemic. “Human ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Milk from Old Order Mennonite mothers contained higher levels of antibodies against allergens compared with that ...

As a young Catholic coming of age in Eagle Creek, Oregon, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bill Idlewine took German classes and spent some time reading the Martin Luther translation of the ...

Around 40,000 Pennsylvania taxpayers will not be able to file taxes next year using a telephone-based system that’s been in place for three decades, presenting a problem for members of Plain Sect ...

OSAGE — Attorneys on Friday argued whether Mitchell County’s ordinance barring steel wheels on its hard-surfaced roads represents an unfair burden on Old Order Mennonites. Colin Murphy defended ...

MARTINDALE, Pa. -- In this bucolic corner of Lancaster County, Allen Hoover can use some modern conveniences approved by his church to help make his machine shop run smoothly: a telephone, a word ...

In the late 19th and early 20th century, modernity caught up with the Anabaptists. Under the cover of a dark September night in 1889, three children of Martin W. and Anna Zimmerman crawled into the ...

The breast milk of mothers in a Mennonite community was shown to have higher concentrations of antibodies, suggesting that children in traditional farming communities may acquire better protection ...