10/27: Amish Grace

Study Guide

Resources:

• Forgiving is Woven into Life (19.2 KB)
• Why the Amish Forgave a K
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•  In God They Trust (19.1 KB)
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•  Amish Grace and the Rest of Us(106.0 KB)
•  Amish Grief (98.0 KB)
•  Forgiveness and Justice (99.1 KB)
•  Forgiveness and Shunning (94.5 KB)
• Upside-Down Forgiveness (95.3 KB)

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>>Video Interview with Kraybill  (and other authors) on AmishGrace book:

Click http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3765845621019885301&hl=en#N


Katie Couric on the scene:


Rebuilding the schoolhouse, the community, and the Amish themselves, click here



>>News report on funeral and forgiveness:

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>>Bill Moyers feature on Amish Grace book and events:


>>Amish Grace, film trailer:



>>Amish Grace, complete film:


Video streaming by Ustream

Amish Grace, Part 1 Questions for the final


1)Summarize the basic story of the shooting, and your theological/emotional response to reading about it.

2)Why did the killer say he did it? (p. 25)

3)-How does the book explain the Amish aversion to verbal evangelism and publicity (pp. 10-11, 51)

.4)What is an old order Amish computer? (p, 4)

5)"Amish _____ is faster than internet" (p.15)

6)-How did the shooting change the Amish perspective of people outside their church? (p. 34)

7)Why did one Amish person say they had to forgive the killer? (p, 45)

8)Name several words that come to mind regarding the Amish choice of forgiveness (p, 49, p, xii)

9)How do you think/feel about forgiveness of a killer?  How might you think/feel about forgiveness of someone who murdered a close family member?