The Amish "Anabaptist Escalator"

Growth of Evangelicals Has Some Amish Leaders Worried

RNS's Daniel Burke examines challenges to the traditional Amish understanding of faith coming from an "evangelical uprising," in this week's full text article, linked above.

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With his talk of supernatural healings and events, [Steve] Lapp seems more at home -- at least theologically -- in Pentecostal churches than among the Amish. But he is just the most extreme example of an evangelical influence creeping into the Old Order Amish community, according to a number of observers. The trend may be most evident here in Lancaster County, which, with 25,000 members, is one of the world's largest Amish settlements.