Professor Kraybill describes the many Amish rituals around dying and shows how their traditions provide special support for the bereaved after a death.

Episode Eight: Humility

Nov 23rd, 2021 15m 22s

Professor Kraybill explores the value and practice of humility in Amish life and explains why individualism is the biggest difference between Amish culture and our own.

Episode Seven: Choices

Nov 16th, 2021 14m 39s

Professor Kraybill shows how Amish restrictions of choice improve satisfaction. In other words, why fewer choices bring more joy. He explores examples related to clothing and to wedding practices.

Episode Six: Smallness

Nov 9th, 2021 15m 2s

Professor Kraybill explains why the Amish think bigness ruins things and shows how small-scale life, including small schools, preserve the dignity of individuals.

Episode Five: Hacking

Nov 2nd, 2021 13m 50s

Professor Kraybill explores the fascinating ways that Amish “hackers” adapt technology to fit Amish values and practices. He shows how hacking is a way to control technology while at the same time permitting some progress.

Episode Four: Forgiveness

Oct 26th, 2021 14m 37s

An English neighbor shoots ten young girls in an Amish school. Within hours, the Amish offer forgiveness to the offender. Forgiveness is a dominate theme in Amish life, and the Amish community demonstrates how forgiveness brings freedom and hea

Episode Three: Apprenticeship

Oct 19th, 2021 14m 27s

The Amish are ahead of some American schools when it comes to apprenticeship. That’s how eighth-grade educated Amish youth learn skills for technical jobs and running businesses. Ironically, a higher education magazine recently began promoting

Episode Two: Technology

Oct 12th, 2021 17m 13s

Sound silly to say we can learn something about technology from the Amish? It’s not. They don’t reject technology. They accept, reject or modify technology depending if it will help or harm their community. Lots of lessons for the rest of us in

Episode One: Community

Sep 28th, 2021 14m 16s

Professor Kraybill explains how the horse-driving Amish, can teach the rest of us in a me-first world a lot about community. An Amish man describes the pros and cons of his Amish community. This is not a sales pitch for the Amish team, but an i

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