Amish Voices, Volume 2: In Their Own Words 1993-2020

by Brad Igou (Compiler)

Overview

The story of the Amish—told by the Amish.
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Brad Igou offers a second volume of writings by Amish people across North America, compiled from the last three decades of Family Life (1993–2020), a monthly Amish magazine. He includes letters, articles, history lessons, parables, questions, challenges—a wide spectrum of human experience from an Amish point of view. Fourteen chapters cover fascinating topics such as shunning, nonresistance, clothing, youth activities, old age, conflicts with the modern world, work, church, humor, and lessons from life.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781513811871
Publisher:	APG Sales & Distribution
Publication date:	01/10/2023
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Brad Igou first became interested in the Amish of Lancaster County as a tour guide and came to know some Amish personally. He spent three months living with an Amish family as he studied for his sociology-anthropology major at Ithaca (NY) College. Brad was an English teacher in Japan for eight years. Back home in Lancaster, Brad was employed by Amish Country Tours and started compiling writings from the Amish periodical Family Life. He was president and co-owner of the Amish Experience, a center interpreting Amish culture to visitors.

Editorial Reviews

Brad Igou lets us hear genuine Amish voices as they discuss the things that matter most to them. Selected from a quarter century of Amish publication, this collection of writings allows us to listen in on conversations about child-rearing, occupational change, concerns about cell phone use, and much more. A wonderful source for understanding Amish life.”
 

STEVEN M. NOLT

In this wonderful and engaging compilation of excerpts from the Amish publication Family Life, Brad Igou takes us on a journey from the sacrifices and martyrdom of the Amish past to the intricacies of the Amish present and, finally, to the challenges of the Amish future. In every chapter, Igou gifts us with an inside look at Amish life in Amish words.”
 

KAREN M. JOHNSON-WEINER

The writers in volume 2 of Amish Voices invite us to sit around an Amish table and listen as Amish people speak about their deepest cares and concerns. This table conversation is more satisfying, more authentically Amish, than the secondhand interpretations of Amish life provided by outside scholars, tourist writers, and the so-called bonnet novelists.” 

Donald B. Kraybill

My only complaint about Brad Igou’s previous collection of Amish voices was that I wanted to hear more. And now I can. This volume will take its place beside the previous one on my easy-to-reach, frequently accessed shelf.”
 

DAVID WEAVER-ZERCHER

Why do the Amish live the way they do? What do they care about and why? What challenges do they face in living up to their ideals? Learn about the Amish from the Amish themselves in this enlightening compilation of writing spanning faith and church, marriage, raising children, work, the world’s temptations, community, and more.”
 

ERIK WESNER

Brad Igou has created a beautiful collection of stories that come directly from the Amish heart. This book will capture your heart as it paints a vivid and authentic portrait of the Amish men and women who live their lives with humble obedience to God’s will as interpreted by a disciplined community of faith. Amish Voices,Volume 2 will fill you with a peace that seems to be lacking in this modern world where we reside today.”
 

SUSAN HOUGELMAN

Brad Igou organized over twenty-five years of Amish readers’ submissions to Family Life magazine, a monthly publication found in almost every Amish home. Compelling and easy to read, Amish Voices,Volume 2 invites readers into Amish culture via letters written with simple eloquence. Witty and poignant, plainspoken and nuanced, this book presents Amish insights on the joy of children, becoming a better parent, the deep loss of a spouse, the privilege of aging, work, family, and community life. Easy to read and hard to put down!”
 

JUDY STAVISKY