I found “Nordisk Sang” in a long-forgotten folder of music from iTunes. Haven’t listened to it in years. It’s great! 🎵 Also found in that folder: “Sonic New York” by Sxip Shirey.
I found “Nordisk Sang” in a long-forgotten folder of music from iTunes. Haven’t listened to it in years. It’s great! 🎵 Also found in that folder: “Sonic New York” by Sxip Shirey.
An insightful observation from Bernd G. Längin in Plain and Amish:
All these conservative Anabaptist groups, heirs of identical church reformers, represent something similar to the medieval monsastic system of the Catholic Church. Transplanted into colonial America, they have persevered in living a Protestant ascetic alternative—but without the vow of celibacy.
The Amish ordnung can be compared to a monastic rule of life. Incidentally, early Anabaptist Michael Sattler actually was a Benedictine.
A question for Christians: how would you square a belief in the inherent dignity of honest work with the idea that hard work was the curse of God on Adam? This isn’t a gotcha. I’m genuinely interested.
I love this series of three haying videos from Just a Few Acres Farm:
There are a lot of reasons to love the series, but right now, on this cold day, it’s because I can almost feel that warm, bright sun as I watch them.
The first day of the last month of true winter around here. This is always the month when I start getting antsy.
“A Farm Winter, with Jerry Apps” What a wonderful storyteller! Well worth your time. I hadn’t heard of him before but turns out he’s a known Wisconsin treasure. His books can be found here.
Despite being a good speller, I can never, never, never remember how to spell Cincinnati. Cincinatti. Ciinncciinnaattii. Sensenattea.
When I’m looking through the library catalogue for books on the Amish, it’s very annoying to have to filter through all the bonnet rippers .
According to Steven Nolt in A History of the Amish, the split between the tradition-minded Old Order Amish and the change-minded Amish Mennonites happened around 1865, though gradually and not due to any single event. Among the Amish Mennonites there was a bishop named Henry Egly who had a powerful conversion experience during an illness in the 1840s. Whether the influence of American evangelicalism and revivalism on him came before or after this experience is not clear from the text.
We no longer have a teenager in the house. Happy 20th birthday, Darcy!