"I wanted freedom and technology, and there was this fire inside of me that felt like there was more to my journey than being Amish." About two years later, she lit a match to that instinct and ...

I drove down the blacktop road, my car filled with lively Amish children, nine-year-old Leah in the front seat with three ...

"A lot of times it's just plain because I'm talking about the Amish and my account is about Amish ... My Amish clothes are my brand," she reasons to PEOPLE. "My content is about educating people ...

I didn't want my parents to have to go to church right after I left. I wanted to make it as easy on them as I could.” Hershberger’s parents didn’t always make things easy for her though. In fact, her ...

Swartzentruber was a teenager when she started to rebel against the traditionalist Amish lifestyle upheld by her parents, seven brothers, four sisters and the rest of their community. She and her ...

She and her mother took their horse and buggy to make an uncommon trip seven miles away from their rural Amish community in Iowa. “We went to town to get feed for the horses and stuff at the ...

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause ... I did not do what probably every virtuous Amish housewife does on Mondays — wash all the dirty clothes from the weekend.

“I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will shew forth all they marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High. When mine ...

“If a load [of Amish] got out of my car at a wedding, they would be like, ‘Can you wait here a minute?’ and they would say, ‘I’m gonna go tell my brother,'” she said. “And then the ...

Old Order Mennonites in Desbarats near Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., share stories of loved ones who have died or been injured in ...