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11-03-2007, 09:08 PM
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And ILG, thanks for sharing. I'm really enjoying reading this conversation.
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Thank you. It is hard to share but I enjoy it too. I just don't enjoy being pounced for sharing!! (That has not happened here on this thread but has happened on many others!!)
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I just finished reading a book about a man who left the OOM that you would enjoy. It's called "Tobias of the Amish" by Ervin R. Stutzman. Ervin is writing in this book about his own father who died when he was just a small child in a car accident.
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An Amish book I have not read!! Gasp!! I am now working at the library and I did a search on Amish books. There are a TON of them. I prefer non-fiction to fiction. I have thought with my Amish thoughts and writing that I like to do I could write Amish fiction but there is already so much of the stuff out there.
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11-03-2007, 09:17 PM
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Thank you. It is hard to share but I enjoy it too. I just don't enjoy being pounced for sharing!! (That has not happened here on this thread but has happened on many others!!)
An Amish book I have not read!! Gasp!! I am now working at the library and I did a search on Amish books. There are a TON of them. I prefer non-fiction to fiction. I have thought with my Amish thoughts and writing that I like to do I could write Amish fiction but there is already so much of the stuff out there.
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Have you read Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult? It is not a bad fiction read.
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11-05-2007, 08:57 AM
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Have you read Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult? It is not a bad fiction read.
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I saw the movie. It had a VERY creepy ending!! 
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11-05-2007, 09:21 PM
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I saw the movie. It had a VERY creepy ending!! |
I'm sorry, I can honestly say I had forgtten the ending! I think I do remember now... the twist... in the murder.
Guess I was not really refering to the plot it's self,
I just remember thinking as I was reading that the author put a lot of research into the book because unlike "For Richer and For Poorer" it did have alot of correct inside info on Amish thought. (aside from the actual murder)
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Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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11-05-2007, 09:23 PM
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I'm reading Beverly Lewis's new book, The Parting. It's about several Amish folk who are discovering the Scripture and salvation through Jesus, and whether they will end up being shunned from the brethren. It's pretty interesting.
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11-05-2007, 09:42 PM
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I'm reading Beverly Lewis's new book, The Parting. It's about several Amish folk who are discovering the Scripture and salvation through Jesus, and whether they will end up being shunned from the brethren. It's pretty interesting.
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I have seen those books and I guess I should read more of them. Please tell me your thoughts after you finish.
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Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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11-06-2007, 08:55 AM
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I have seen those books and I guess I should read more of them. Please tell me your thoughts after you finish.
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This is actually a new one, the first of a new series. I've read all of her stuff, I guess. The theme behind this one is a group of people learning about freedom in salvation through Jesus, and splitting off from the old order traditional sect. Very interesting, in light of all that's going on in UPC. There were a lot of interesting similarities and lots of emotions on both sides.
(This is not to indicate that the old order UPC do not know Jesus!!! - Just a lot of emotional likenesses). 
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11-06-2007, 08:03 AM
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I'm sorry, I can honestly say I had forgtten the ending! I think I do remember now... the twist... in the murder.
Guess I was not really refering to the plot it's self,
I just remember thinking as I was reading that the author put a lot of research into the book because unlike "For Richer and For Poorer" it did have alot of correct inside info on Amish thought. (aside from the actual murder)
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I am not familiar with "For richer or for poorer" but when I was first reading Amish books, for the first number of years I would not read any fiction unless it was written by an insider who left because I didn't want to get confused. Even now, reading fiction, I get confused. For example, in the book I am reading now, they use pleasantries like please and thank you and the parents show affection. How realistic is this? Does it differ from district to district? That is where I get most confused. I'm sure there is a cultural thread that never changes and then the ones that do district to district. The fiction I read at first is a series by Mary Christner Bontrager. She was raised Amish.
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11-06-2007, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by ILG
I am not familiar with "For richer or for poorer" but when I was first reading Amish books, for the first number of years I would not read any fiction unless it was written by an insider who left because I didn't want to get confused. Even now, reading fiction, I get confused. For example, in the book I am reading now, they use pleasantries like please and thank you and the parents show affection. How realistic is this? Does it differ from district to district? That is where I get most confused. I'm sure there is a cultural thread that never changes and then the ones that do district to district. The fiction I read at first is a series by Mary Christner Bontrager. She was raised Amish.
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We have a Borntrager gal in our church here; her dad's family is all Amish. I would love to just sit and chat with her sometime!
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11-06-2007, 08:54 AM
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We have a Borntrager gal in our church here; her dad's family is all Amish. I would love to just sit and chat with her sometime!
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Guess you'll have to take her to lunch! 
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