Amish churches forbid individuals to pose for face-on-photos for two reasons. First, they cite the second of the Bible's Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not make… any graven image, or any ...

The Amish and the Mennonites both trace their roots ... property based on practices of the early Christian church in the Bible. Some 50,000 Hutterites live in 500 rural communes in the Dakotas ...

The young Amish man was undeterred ... which is based on the Bible,” one letter writer explains. “We realize that once a tradition or ordnance based on the Bible is lost, it will never ...

The landscape is shaped by vast fields with grain silos and long clotheslines strung in front of farmhouses. Combined with the many horse-drawn carriages on the roads, it feels like being ...