A friend recently observed that many people don’t know the difference between Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites. Yes, there are Old Order Mennonites, and we have some of them as well as ...

Plain People is an umbrella term for various Amish and Old Order Mennonite groups who set themselves apart from the modern world in different ways. The groups are offshoots of the Anabaptist ...

Old Old Order Amish, or “house Amish,’’ hold church every other Sunday in a member’s home. Nolt speculates Lapp went to the Mennonite service on his week off.

Some Old Order Mennonites eschew technology, cars and dress in plain clothes like the Amish, who separated from the Mennonites in the 17th century. There are some differences.

But among the Mennonite and Amish communities, it’s all too familiar. Three of Amy and Derick’s cousins have it; so do 16 other Amish and Old Order Mennonite children in the area.

Amish and Old Order Mennonite students attend school through eighth grade. In the 1940s and ’50s, there were conflicts with the state over keeping older children out of school, and some Amish ...

In Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, an associate professor of anthropology at the State University of New York College at Potsdam, provides insight ...