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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James Hurd
Meet James Hurd:
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.
Today, he writes for those who find themselves at the crossroads of faith and doubt, seeking a community of kindred spirits interested in flying, deep reading, and the mysteries of the human heart.
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