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 ...

A unique pocket of American history, the Amish might easily be mistaken for historical reenactors, with their horse-drawn ...

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 ...

The family of Marcus Brubaker were Old Order Mennonites who came to the United States from Canton of Zürich, Switzerland in the 1700s. First settling in eastern Pennsylvania, they for decades farmed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eli Zimmerman talked about the history of the wheel issue, which he traced to a split in the Mennonite church in 1927. Those who wanted to use cars became known as the Weaverland Conference. Those who ...

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 ...

Kraybill and Bowman, professors of sociology at Messiah College and Bridgewater College, respectively, take a typically sociological approach to Old Order Anabaptists. The authors attempt to explain ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE — At an inner-city stable in one of the grittiest areas of Baltimore, a vanishing breed of urban horsemen prepares for its weekly visit to Pennsylvania Dutch country, where Mennonite farmers ...