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English language: in Amish funerals; in Amish schools
Enright, R. D.
Ephesians
Episcopal Church
Esau and Jacob
Evangelicalism
Everything for Sale
(Kuttner)
(Kuttner)
Evil: divine judgment and; earthly justice and; providence and
Evil and the Justice of God
(Wright)
(Wright)
Excommunication: among Anabaptists; conditions for; practice of; shunning and. See also Shunning
Ex-members, forgiveness and pardon of
Exodus 20:4
Extended families
Faces of Forgiveness, The
(Shults and Sandage)
(Shults and Sandage)
Factory work
Faithful America blog
Families of victims: acts of forgiveness by; attendance of, at Roberts’ funeral; on forgiveness; gratitude of, for outside support; Roberts family meetings with; Roberts family’s ongoing activities with; on struggle for forgiveness; trust fund for; update on, as of 2009,
Family Life
Farmers markets
Farms, Amish
Fasting
Fatalism: outsiders’ perception of; submission
versus
versus
Final judgment.
See also
Salvation
See also
Salvation
Firehouse.
See
Bart Township Fire Company
See
Bart Township Fire Company
Footwashing
Forgetting and forgiving
Forgive for Good
(Luskin)
(Luskin)
Forgive-and-forget policy
Forgiveness: for acts against other people; cautions for; in Christianity; conditions for; debate about; decisional
versus
emotional; defining; for extremely heinous acts; key questions about; pressured; psychology of; Roberts’ mother’s process of; scholarship of; unconditional
versus
emotional; defining; for extremely heinous acts; key questions about; pressured; psychology of; Roberts’ mother’s process of; scholarship of; unconditional
Forgiveness, Amish: in aftermath of shooting; Amish culture and; Amish definition of; Amish martyrs and; Amish public speaking on; Amish reactions to outsiders’ interest in; in Amish schoolbooks; analysis of forgiveness and; anger and; biblical sources for; challenges of, for Amish; Christian forgiveness and; as communal responsibility; in communion season; critiques of; examples of, in other incidents; habit of; impact of; lessons from; love and; media coverage of; national conversation about; others’ ideological use of; pardon
versus
; personal struggles with; positive reactions to; practice of; pressured; questions about; redemption and, ; roots of; salvation dependent on; shunning and; spirituality of; of strangers; sympathy and; teaching, to children; textual sources of; transferability of, to mainstream society;
Uffgevva
and.
See also
Critiques of Amish forgiveness
versus
; personal struggles with; positive reactions to; practice of; pressured; questions about; redemption and, ; roots of; salvation dependent on; shunning and; spirituality of; of strangers; sympathy and; teaching, to children; textual sources of; transferability of, to mainstream society;
Uffgevva
and.
See also
Critiques of Amish forgiveness
Forgiveness and Reconciliation
(Worthington)
(Worthington)
Forgiveness Is a Choice
(Enright)
(Enright)
Fox News
Free of Charge
(Volf)
(Volf)
Free will
Funds, victim relief.
See also
Donations
See also
Donations
Funeral processions
Funerals, Amish: benches for; customs of; non-Amish guests of; of shooting victims
Galatians 6:2
Gelassenheit
(submission): church authority and; concept and dimensions of; divine providence and; forgiveness and; stories and songs that illustrate; teaching, to children; transgression of
(submission): church authority and; concept and dimensions of; divine providence and; forgiveness and; stories and songs that illustrate; teaching, to children; transgression of
Gender roles
Genesis 33:1-17
Georgetown, Pennsylvania; hit-and-run incident near; Roberts’ home in.
See also
Bart Township
See also
Bart Township
Georgetown United Methodist Church
Gergen, K. J.
German language: in Amish schools; in Amish worship services
Gingerich, E.
Giving up.
See Uffgevva
See Uffgevva
Gmay
.
See also
Worship services
.
See also
Worship services
Gobodo-Madikizela, P.
God’s providence: Amish views of; biblical sources on; human choice and; miracles and; and Nickel Mines shooting; questions of; and the reality of evil; surrender to
Good Night, My Son
Gospels: discipleship tradition and; priority of, in Amish theology.
See also specific book headings
See also specific book headings
Gottlieb, A. M.
Government.
See State headings
See State headings
Graber.
Grace.
See
Acts of grace; Forgiveness; Forgiveness, Amish
See
Acts of grace; Forgiveness; Forgiveness, Amish
Gracious remembering
Grapevine, Amish
Gratitude, Amish, for outside support
Greater good, providence and
Greetings, ritual
Gregory, B.
Grief counselors
Grief support groups
Grieving: Amish; Amish community support for; Amish preparedness for; bench wagons and; death rituals and; emotional suppression and; ongoing; public expression of; rituals of mourning and
Growing Up Amish
(Stevick)
(Stevick)
Grudges, letting go of: Amish belief in; in communion season; against ex-members; forgiveness defined as; against Roberts family; struggles with.
See also
Forgiveness, Amish; Resentment
See also
Forgiveness, Amish; Resentment
Gun control debate
Harvest season
Hastert.
Helicopters, on day of shooting
Herod, King
Hershey Medical Center
Hesburgh, T.
Hidden curriculum
History of the Amish, A
Hochstetler, J.
Hockey
Holmes County, Ohio
Holocaust, and forgiveness debate
Horse-and-buggies: bench wagons and; subgroup differences in; use of
Hosea
Hospitals, victims at
Human Being Died That Night, A
(Gobodo-Madikizela)
(Gobodo-Madikizela)
Humility: and avoidance of publicity; and deferring to divine justice; and deferring to divine providence; forgiveness and;
Gelassenheit
and; and lack of public commemoration; in prayer and practice; sources of
Gelassenheit
and; and lack of public commemoration; in prayer and practice; sources of
Hunting season
Hurricane Agnes
Hurricane Katrina
Huyard family
Hymns.
See
Songs and hymns
See
Songs and hymns
“I Was a Little Child,”
“Ich war ein kleines Kindlein,”
Iligabiza.
Immigration to North America
“In der stillen Einsamkeit,”
“In Quiet Solitude,”
Indiana, Amish settlements in
Indifference, forgiveness
versus
versus
Individualism: Amish communal authority
versus
; anger and; forgiveness and;
Gelassenheit versus
; in mainstream American society.
See also
American mainstream society
versus
; anger and; forgiveness and;
Gelassenheit versus
; in mainstream American society.
See also
American mainstream society
Industrial Revolution
Insurance, Amish rejection of
Islam
Jacoby, J.
Japanese origami cranes
Jesus, discipleship and.
See also
Crucifixion; Discipleship
See also
Crucifixion; Discipleship
“Jesus Loves Me,”
Job, providence and
Job 40:4
John (Gospel): 4:10 forgiveness story in
Johnson-Weiner, K. M.
Journalists: challenges of; on-site presence of; questions of, regarding Amish forgiveness.
See also
Media; Publicity
See also
Media; Publicity
Judaism
Judicial system.
See
State authority
See
State authority
Justice.
See
Final judgment; God’s providence; Salvation; State authority and justice; Two-kingdom theology
See
Final judgment; God’s providence; Salvation; State authority and justice; Two-kingdom theology
Khaleej Times
Kime, J.
King, E.
Kraybill. B.
Kuttner, R.
Labi, N.
Lamb, S.
Lambright, M.
Lancaster Amish lectionary
Lancaster Amish settlement: Amish schools in; autumn in; characteristics of; funerals and viewings in; mourning rituals in; other violent incidents in; population of; reactions of, to media coverage of forgiveness.
See also
Nickel Mines community; West Nickel Mines School
See also
Nickel Mines community; West Nickel Mines School
Lancaster City
Lancaster County Emergency Management Agency
Larry King Live
Leaders, ordained: abuse of power by; church districts and; roles of
Lectionary
Lefever.
Left to Tell
(Iligabiza)
(Iligabiza)
Legal Affairs
Lena
Levy.
Liberal Christianity, Amish-inspired critiques of
Limits, respect for
Lord’s Prayer:
Gelassenheit
and; language used for; location of, in Gospel of Matthew; occasions for recitation of, ; prominence of, in Amish faith; on salvation and forgiveness; as source on divine providence; as source on forgiveness
Gelassenheit
and; language used for; location of, in Gospel of Matthew; occasions for recitation of, ; prominence of, in Amish faith; on salvation and forgiveness; as source on divine providence; as source on forgiveness
Love: Amish view of; of enemy; forgiveness and; shunning as “tough,”
Luke (Gospel): 23:34; as source for forgiveness
Luskin, F.
Luther, M.
Mainstream society.
See
American mainstream society; English, the (non-Amish)
See
American mainstream society; English, the (non-Amish)
Manson.
Marian
Mark (Gospel), as source for forgiveness
Martyrs, Amish: ballads of; forgiveness and; shooting victims as; sixteenth-century; stories of
Martyrs, non-Amish
Martyrs Mirror (Bloody Theater or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians, The)
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