Plain Meethinghouses: Lancaster County Old Order Mennonites Gather To Worship, by Beth Oberholtzer, photos by John Herr
[Note: This book was provided free of charge by Edelweiss/Schiffer Publishing. All thoughts and opinions are my own.]
There may not be many people who would appreciate this book as much as I did, but I found a great deal about this book to enjoy. My own religious traditions share a great deal with the Mennonites [1], such as a standoffish relationship towards involvement with government, a desire to avoid worldliness, baptism of adults rather than infants, footwashing, strong schismatic tendencies, and a strong preference for community unity rather than individuality. Given these similarities due to our common background of pietism, there was a lot here that I was able to appreciate from my own personal experience. The author and photographer here do a fantastic job at showing the simplicity of the plain…
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