Sentences with phrase «old order amish»

Of more than two dozen U.S. affiliations of Amish and Mennonites, two of the most traditional sects — the Old Order Amish and Groffdale Conference or «Horse and Buggy» Mennonites — migrated to Wisconsin, says Kraybill.

A genetic mutation that protects against different aspects of aging was discovered in a family of Old Order Amish.

The Old Order Amish are ideal for genetic studies because they are a genetically homogenous population tracing their ancestry back 14 generations to a small group that came to Pennsylvania from Europe in the mid-1700s.

In 2008, they discovered a novel gene mutation among the Old Order Amish population that significantly reduces the level of triglycerides in the blood and appears to help prevent cardiovascular disease.

In this study, 5.1 percent of the Old Order Amish study participants had at least one copy of the mutation.

Douglas Vaughan of Northwestern University, Chicago, and his team have now studied the gene in 177 members of the Old Order Amish community in Berne, Indiana, to find out.

Back again are even more amazing birthing tales, including those from women who were babies in earlier editions and stories about Old Order Amish women attended by the Farm midwives.

Last week I was privileged to spend some time in Pennsylvania's Amish country talking with Old Order Amish and Mennonite women as part of my biblical womanhood project.

Called Plain, it is edited (and its type hand - set) by «conservative» Quakers, which is to say a group of men and women who live more or less in the fashion of Old Order Amish.

But if one includes all sects and movements, this accolade may belong to none other than the Old Order Amish, whose numbers have reached at least 100,000» some estimates run much higher» and are doubling every twenty years.

A number of interesting cases followed the Sherbert precedent, notably Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972), exempting the children of Old Order Amish from a requirement to attend school until age sixteen.

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Amish and Old Order Mennonites reject the technology of the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, limiting themselves to horses and carriages and nonelectrical lighting in their homes.

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As I already said above, I've never interacted with old order or Amish Mennonite groups.

Honestly, if I wanted a highly religious girl, I'd go after a schwarzentrubber (old order) Amish chick.

The Artist's Inn is set in Terre Hill, a tiny town nestled amongst the rolling farms of the Amish and old - order Mennonites.

In Graves County, Ky., six men belonging to an Amish sect called the Old Order Swartzentruber are currently serving time in jail after they refused to place bright orange safety triangles on the backs of their horse - drawn buggies.

The Old Order Swartzentruber Amish, however, follow a strict code of conduct that is at odds with this law.