Amish News

" Breaking Amish : Brave New World" and " Newlyweds : The First Year" are currently airing on TLC and Bravo.

Wood County officials are hoping they can reach an understanding with Amish residents living in central Wood County.

The first season of the show saw five young Amish people move to New York to test their luck outside the lives they've always known; this time around, the cast members will be moving to L.A. "'Breaking Amish' is about the challenges and opportunities anyone faces when at a crossroads in life -- deciding which path to take and finding your road to ... (more)

The Amish also make a distinction between technology they have at work and technology they have at home.

I attended a picnic yesterday in Wayne County, Indiana. The picnic was notable because it was just an eclectic neat mix of people: Old Order Amish, German Baptists, Plain Protestant, and just regular ol' non-Plain people like me.

Goodbye milking cows, hello Hollywood. Breaking Amish is back, and an all-new cast is leaving behind their old-fashioned communities to test out modern life in Los Angeles - and decide whether to remain part of the "English," or return to their Amish and Mennonite roots.

Early in the morning of May 16th, six cyclists from the Bangor YMCA Adventure Seeker's Program met at 17 Second Street In Bangor.

Two Amish teenagers were injured Tuesday night when the buggy they were piloting on a rural road near Orleans was rammed from behind by a speeding vehicle - it's driver ... Need this information? You may purchase access to it by subscribing for one month to TMNews.com at a cost of $6.95 .

Police say Johnny Miller suffered serious injuries. No update was available on their conditions.

Workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation at a gas well outside Rifle, in western Colorado.

Dr. Kristin Park , Westminster College professor of sociology and chair of the department, attended the conference "Amish America: Plain Technology in a Cyber World" June 5-8 at Elizabethtown College.

In The New Republic , Molly Redden writes about how energy companies are exploiting the fact that the Amish religion and culture rely on a strict interpretation of the Christian bible to prohibit the use of the courts in settling disputes.

This concerns the letter by Aaron Shefchek . His opening sentence claims that I must have heard disparaging remarks regarding technology "at least 20 million times."

The horse-drawn carriages, the unadorned clothing and the one-room schoolhouses drive the public's belief that the Amish are all alike.

Several stories of interest about the Amish are running on the newswires today, so I thought I'd give you a quick sampler: FRACKING: As an oil boom takes shape in Ohio's rural eastern counties many Amish are Continue reading The post Sunday Sam... Read More Earlier this year the Amish Cook column included a recipe for "upside down pizza."

The Swiss Amish: I want to thank Jodi Click for sharing some scenes that definitely put me in a nostalgic mood.

Two riders of an Amish horse and buggy were hospitalized Sunday after a car struck their buggy from behind, troopers said.

Or electricity I'm guessing? I'm not sure why these are Amish. According to that "Devil's Playground" movie about rumsprina , the Amish go nuts before they officially sign on to the lifestyle and man get their bone on.

The Amish, the ex-Amish and the Amish scholars gathered together for the Elizabethtown College Amish Conference on June 6-8 to discuss various aspects of Amish life, from religion to technology to healthcare.

Energy companies are taking advantage of Amish religious beliefs in the Utica and Marcellus shale regions of Ohio, reports Molly Redden at the New Republic.