Plain Truth

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Barn-Raised and Barefoot
2. Chapter Two - Unwritten Laws, Unbroken Lives
3. Chapter Three - The Silence of the Wires
4. Chapter Four - The Most Misunderstood Party in America
5. Chapter Five - Women, Work, and Wifedom
6. Chapter Six - Where Faith Ends and Obedience Begins
7. Chapter Seven - Beneath the Bonnets and Beards
8. Chapter Eight - Peace Has a Price Tag
9. Chapter Nine - The Exit Wound
10. Chapter Ten - Between Two Worlds

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Barn-Raised and Barefoot THEY RIDE IN buggies. They don’t use phones. They make quilts and churn butter and live without the internet. That’s the image, right? To most people, the Amish exist like a whisper from the past — old-timey, unchanging, a live-action museum tucked between cornfields. They’re seen as harmless, maybe even charming. Or sometimes suspicious. Depending who you ask, they’re either holy or hiding something. But here's the real question: Are they just “different,” or are they something much deeper — a society structured so tightly it borders on a cult? Because make no mistake: the Amish aren’t just “people who like old stuff.” They are a closed, rule-bound...