A sleeping preacher? There couldn’t really be such a thing, could there? That’s the question in Gladden the Heart. In the nineteenth century, amid revivalism movements, a number of religious groups experienced preachers who seemed to fall into trances or into unconsciousness and wake up to preach for lengthy periods of time. Despite having no […]
If I say, “Amish school,” what do you think of? I’m going to guess that two things pop into your mind. First, that Amish students leave school after eighth grade, and second, that they study in a private one-room schoolhouse with an Amish teacher. These things haven’t always been true. In fact, before the 1950s, […]
When you get a novel with the front cover showing an Amish woman in the foreground and dry, desolate land as far as the horizon in the background, your mind starts wandering to what it is all about. Then you couple that with the title, Wonderful Lonesome, and think: This is not your typical Amish […]
Hi Olivia! Welcome to Destination Amish. Can you share a little about yourself? I’m an Illinois native transplanted in Colorado by way of California and Washington State. I love the sunshine here and the fact that every time I step outside my front door I can lift my eyes to a view of the Rockies. […]