How Do They Do It?

How does a conservative horse-and-buggy society maintain their covenant community of low-tech simplicity and nonviolence? 

How do they prevent their children from going to “the world?”

This study employs dozens of personal interviews and months of on-site observation to answer these questions.

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Pilot, Professor, and Storyteller.

James Hurd has lived a lot of lives—mission pilot in Latin America, anthropology professor at Bethel University, and author of Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites, Wingspread: A Memoir and Blessed Unbeliever―a novel about doubt and faith.

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