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Original Title:	Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
ISBN:	0787997617 (ISBN13: 9780787997618)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Lancaster County, Pennsylvania(United States)

Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy

Donald B. Kraybill

Hardcover | Pages: 237 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 2039 Users | 443 Reviews

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Title	:	Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
Author	:	Donald B. Kraybill
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 237 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2007 by Jossey-Bass (first published January 1st 2007)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Amish. Religion. Christian. Crime. True Crime. Christianity

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On Monday morning, October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. In front of twenty-five horrified pupils, thirty-two-year-old Charles Roberts ordered the boys and the teacher to leave. After tying the legs of the ten remaining girls, Roberts prepared to shoot them execution with an automatic rifle and four hundred rounds of ammunition that he brought for the task. The oldest hostage, a thirteen-year-old, begged Roberts to "shoot me first and let the little ones go." Refusing her offer, he opened fire on all of them, killing five and leaving the others critically wounded. He then shot himself as police stormed the building. His motivation? "I'm angry at God for taking my little daughter," he told the children before the massacre. The story captured the attention of broadcast and print media in the United States and around the world. By Tuesday morning some fifty television crews had clogged the small village of Nickel Mines, staying for five days until the killer and the killed were buried. The blood was barely dry on the schoolhouse floor when Amish parents brought words of forgiveness to the family of the one who had slain their children.

The outside world was incredulous that such forgiveness could be offered so quickly for such a heinous crime. Of the hundreds of media queries that the authors received about the shooting, questions about forgiveness rose to the top. Forgiveness, in fact, eclipsed the tragic story, trumping the violence and arresting the world's attention.

Within a week of the murders, Amish forgiveness was a central theme in more than 2,400 news stories around the world. The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, NBC Nightly News, CBS Morning News, Larry King Live, Fox News, Oprah, and dozens of other media outlets heralded the forgiving Amish. From the Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates) to Australian television, international media were opining on Amish forgiveness. Three weeks after the shooting, "Amish forgiveness" had appeared in 2,900 news stories worldwide and on 534,000 web sites.

Fresh from the funerals where they had buried their own children, grieving Amish families accounted for half of the seventy-five people who attended the killer's burial. Roberts' widow was deeply moved by their presence as Amish families greeted her and her three children. The forgiveness went beyond talk and graveside presence: the Amish also supported a fund for the shooter's family.

AMISH GRACE explores the many questions this story raises about the religious beliefs and habits that led the Amish to forgive so quickly. It looks at the ties between forgiveness and membership in a cloistered communal society and ask if Amish practices parallel or diverge from other religious and secular notions of forgiveness. It will also address the matter of why forgiveness became news. "All the religions teach it," mused an observer, "but no one does it like the Amish." Regardless of the cultural seedbed that nourished this story, the surprising act of Amish forgiveness begs for a deeper exploration. How could the Amish do this? What did this act mean to them? And how might their witness prove useful to the rest of us?

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This is an incredibly sad story but also incredibly moving. I'm not sure I would of been able to forgive such an unspeakable act. This book was a lesson in forgiveness and selflessness. Inspiring.

On October 2, 2006, a disturbed and heavily armed man entered an Amish school in Pennsylvania and took the children hostage. He eventually sent everyone but 10 young girls away, and as police surrounded the school, shot the children and then committed suicide. Five of the girls died, and the others suffered critical injuries.The first section of the book gives background on the Amish and their beliefs, and then recounts the tragic events of that day. The authors then turn to the response of the

I first thought very highly (and I guess I still do)of the Amish's ability and willingness to forgive and reach to the families of offenders. But, now in light of knowing that the Amish believe that if they do not forgive then they will not be forgiven by God. The book talked about how important and how much they emphasis forgiveness in the Amish culture. Sometimes to their own peril. In cases of domestic abuse, sexual abuse ect. It was interesting to read the history of the Amish culture and

Reminds me that for the Christian virtues are practiced. Training in godliness is truly that, training.

This powerful book was written as a result of the school shooting in Nickel Mines. Pennsylvania on October 2, 2006. The focus of the book is not Charles Roberts, the shooter, but rather on the amazing forgiveness that flowed from the Amish community to the shooter's family. The depth of the book takes its readers to a better understanding of the religious beliefs and habits of the Amish and the foundation stones that led the Amish to forgive so quickly. The book really challenged me on many

The first 50 pages detailing a horrific incident and it's aftermath are worth reading the book alone. And I think the book is worth owning, not just borrowing from the library. And it's worth reading (at least the first 50 pages) more than once. It's heartbreaking, uplifting, beautiful. I had to keep putting the book down because the tears in my eyes made me unable to see the pages clearly. The touching comments and views remind me of a poem by a 17th century Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet called

Read because I grew up not too far from the highest concentration of Amish in the world: Holmes County, Ohio, and because I didnt know much about the Nickel Mines shooting. This book first goes over the Nickel Mines school shooting incident itself, then the aftermath, focusing on the victims families extending friendship to the shooters family and forgiveness to the dead shooter. Next, it briefly traces the history of the Amish faith, and then it analyzes how that history affects the practice of