love to paint

I've written before that Amish fiction has puzzled me and given me a bit of concern.   But, every once in awhile, I take another chance on it.   This week I read A Lancaster County Christmas by Suzanne Woods Fisher.   Here's my disclaimer:   This is fiction.   It is not nonfiction.   Please keep this in mind if you read this book.   Suzanne Woods Fisher hosts a radio show called Amish Wisdom.   I listened to a short excerpt of the show yesterday, which I do have thoughts about, but those thoughts are probably better suited to a separate post.   So, I'll limit this review to this book.   Storyline:   Jaime and C.J. have been married for 3 years.   Jaime is having doubts about her marriage and her ideas about what life should be have gotten skewed by the influence of her father who has reappeared in her life after being an absentee father almost her entire life.   Mattie and Sol are Amish and live with their son, Danny, an...

I've discovered that I feel a sense of concern about the budding genre of Christian fiction that I would call "Amish Fiction".   You see, I live near Pennsylvania where the majority of Amish live in the United States .   I had a friend who was a Christian while we lived in Pennsylvania whose family was Mennonite.   I remember her sharing with me how her family ostracized her when she married a man who was a Christian, but not a Mennonite.   The Mennonites, Bretheren, and Amish are all Anabaptists.   If you saw a family tree of Protestant Christianity, there would be five branches: 1.   Orthodox   Greek and Russian   Orthodox churches   2.   Anabaptists   - Amish, Mennonite, and Brethren   3.   Lutheran   4.   Anglican   - Most denominations trace their roots to this branch: Baptists, Methodists,           Pentecostals, Episcopal, etc.   5.   Reformed ...