Deacon: as charity overseer; role of
Death: beliefs about; forgiveness for accidental; funerals and; God’s providence in; grieving; at home; last rite prior to; life support and; mutual aid in; in nature
De-electrification: church requirement for; costs of
See also
Electricity
Depression: rates of; singing as antidote to
“Desiderata,”
Deuteronomy: 5:32
Developmental disability
Diary,The
Die Botshaft
Die Ernsthafte Christenpflicht. See Christenpflicht, Die Ernsthafte
“
Die Kinder Zucht
” (“The Upbringing of the Child”)
Directories, church
Disabilities: attitudes toward; children with developmental; flexibility in rules for people with
Disciplinary procedures: for adults; for children
See also
Church discipline;
Ordnung
Dishwashers
Disobedience: costs of; evil and; procedures addressing
District.
See Gmay
Divorce
Domestic violence
Dordrecht Confession of Faith (“Eighteen Articles”); contents of; as a distinguishing Amish text; excommunication and; on footwashing; on nonresistance; review of, prior to baptism; on separation from the world; versions and sources of
Dress.
See
Clothing
Drug abuse
Dying, last rite in
See also
Death
E
Easter
Education: in Amish schools; eighth-grade cap on; informal religious; limited options for; state legal challenge to; U.S. Supreme Court case on
See also
Schools
“Eighteen Articles.”
See
Dordrecht Confession of Faith
Elderly care
Electricity: alternatives to; de-electrification and; fragmentation peril of; nature and; prohibition against; for special needs
Emergency medical units
Energy sources, alternative
See also
Electricity
English, the.
See
Mainstream society; Outsiders
Ephesians: 4:29
Epiphany
Esh, M.
Ethnic diversity
Evangelism
Evil; Amish responses to; Christian debate over; of city life; forgiveness and; God’s providence and; judgment and; problem of; roots of; of the world
Evolutionary theory
Example, teaching by: for children; of
Ordnung
;
versus
verbal evangelism
Excommunication: for attending college; Dordrecht Confession and; parental attitudes toward; return from; shunning after; for unpardoned
Ordnung
violations
Exodus 20:4
Ezekiel 3:18
F
Face pictures, taboo on
Factory work
Families: domestic violence in; employment and; extended nature of; fathers as leaders of; financial responsibility of; gender roles in; in
Gmays
; life of; nature and; prayer and scriptural reading in; shunning within; singing in; size of; Sunday routines of; as Sunday worship hosts
See also
Children
Family Life
“Family That Accepts Death” vignette
Farmers’ markets
Farming; organic/sustainable
Fasting
Fishing
Footwashing
Forgiveness: of assailants; for fatal car accidents; in order to be forgiven; outsiders’ reactions to; pardon
versus
; of persecutors; prior to communion; “Rules of a Godly Life” on; as a struggle
Fragmentation threat: of cars; of electricity
Freedom of choice: benefits of giving up; costs of giving up; to join the church
Freedom of religion
Frugality
Fundraising
Funerals
G
Galatians 6
Games and sports
Garden of Eden
Gardens
Gelassenheit:
in response to death; in response to evil; silence and; simple lifestyle and; spirit of; in worship
See also
God’s will and providence
Gender: roles; seating according to
Generational intermingling
Genesis
Geographical proximity
German language use: in funerals; in hymns; in songs; in Sunday worship services
Giving up
(uffgevva):
to achieve harmony for communion; to being selected as a minister; children’s training in; to community; defined; of dress preferences; forgiveness and; in preaching; of self; sin and; struggle of
See also Gelassenheit
Gmay
(church district): children in; composition and size of; decision to join; definition of; disciplinary procedures of; ensuring harmony in; excommunication from; gender roles in; intergenerational relationships in; joining the; lack of privacy in; leaders of; material possessions and; mutual aid in;
Ordnung
of; shopping and services within; variations among; weddings in; worship in
God: forgiveness of; judgment of; Kingdom of; love of; nature and; triune
“God Is Love” (“
Gott ist die Liebe
”)
God’s will and providence: death and; evil and; illness and; in nature; nonresistance and; and reliance on
Ordnung
; silence and; suffering and; surrender to
See also Gelassenheit
Golden Rule
Good Friday
“
Gott ist die Liebe
” (“God Is Love”)
Government, Amish relationships with
Grace: Amish
versus
non-Amish views of; obedience and
Grandchildren
Grandparents:
Dawdyhauses
for; presence of
“Green” Amish
Green Field Farms
Gregorian chant
Grieving
Grudges
H
Habits, practice and
Habits of the Heart
(Bellah)
Happenings of the Bible
Harmony, ensuring, for communion
Harmony singing
Health care: insurance prohibitions; mutual aid and
See also
Illness;
Medical headings
Hearse
Heartland Hymns
“Heaven’s Special Child,”
Hebrews; 12:11
Herbal remedies
Hero, Western ideal of
Hiking
History: of the Amish; Amish respect for; of Anabaptists
Hobbies
Holmes County, Ohio
Holy Communion Sunday
See also
Communion
Holy kiss
Homeopathy
“Homespun Scholar” vignette
Horses
Hospice
Hospitalization
Hostetler, J. A.
Hugging
Humility: art and; in Council Meeting; deference to others and; in dress; with material possessions; in preaching; “Rules of a Godly Life” on
Hunting
Hurricane Katrina
Hydraulic power
Hymnals
See also Ausbund
Hymns; family singing of; first, in worship service; at funerals; in schools; second, in worship service; singing of; at weddings
See also Ausbund
I
“Ich hab ein Freund”
(I have a friend . . .
Idleness: “Rules of a Godly Life” on; teaching children to avoid
Idols, prohibition of
Illness: anointing-with-oil rite for; congenital; natural remedies for; submission to God’s providence and; support for people with
See also
Disabilities; Health care;
Medical headings
Imitation of Christ,The
(à Kempis)
Immunization
In Meiner Jugend: A Devotional Reader in German and English
“In the Rifted Rock I’m Resting,”
In vitro fertilization
Indiana, Amish settlements in
Individual expression, areas of
Individualism: Amish communalism
versus
; of contemporary spirituality; in-depth spiritual study and; Western ideal of
Industrial Revolution
Insurance prohibitions
Internet use
Ivverich und Ender
(Odds and Ends)
J
James: 3:6
Jesus Christ: Amish as followers of; nonresistance of; review of life of, on Communion Sunday; simple living of; suffering of; surrender of
“Jesus Liebt die Kleine Kinder”
(“Jesus Loves the Little Children”)
Jewelry
Jezebel
John
1 John 2:15
Joshua 24:15
Judgment: criminal justice system and; leaving, to God; refraining from
Judicial system, state
K
Keillor, G.
Kempis, T. à
King, E.
King, L.
King, M.L.K., Jr.
2 Kings 9:30-37
Kitchen table
Kline, D.
Kline, P.
Kneeling
L
Labor unions
La Grange County, Indiana