Amish Grace

Children: death of, Amish coping with; disciplining; emotional trauma of; teaching, about forgiveness; and teenagers. See also Amish schools; Victims of shooting

Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia

Chittister, J.

Christian Broadcasting Network

Christian faith: Amish compared with others’; defining a life in; discipleship in; forgiveness in; providence and. See also Amish faith

Christian Right, Amish-inspired critiques of

Christian Science Monitor

Christiana Hospital, Newark, Delaware

Church authority: biblical source for; domestic abuse and; for pardoning members; submission to; two-kingdom theology and. See also Ordnung

Church districts: affiliations and; in Lancaster; organization of

Church services. See Communion; Worship services

Church-state separation, Anabaptist belief in

Circle letters

Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Classic Word Processor

Clinton-Lewinsky scandal

Clothing: Amish; mourning

CNN

Coatesville Savings Bank

Coblentz.

Coblentz, M.

Coblentz, P.

Collectivism, Amish: anger and; authority of; and aversion to publicity; and decision to forgive

Colossians

Columbine School shootings

Comfort quilt

Communal support. See Collectivism; Mutual aid

Communion; communal aspect of; Council Meeting prior to; preparation period for

Communion Sunday

Compassion

Confession, as condition for pardon

Confidentiality, of Members Meetings

Consequences: Amish acceptance of; versus revenge

“Consider, Man, the End,”

Construction workers

Consumerism

Cooper-White, P.

1 Corinthians: 5

2 Corinthians 5:19

Council Meetings

Critiques of Amish forgiveness: as emotionally suppressive; examination of; as hypocritical; overview of; as pressured; as showing indifference; as showing lack of self-respect; as too quick

Crockett, S.

Cronk, S.

Cross-Cultural Psychology (Shiraev and Levy)

Crucifixion: God’s providence and; as model of forgiveness; as model of nonresistance

Cry of Tamar, The (Cooper-White)

Cultural osmosis

Culture: defining and understanding; emotional experience and; reactions to tragedy and. See also American mainstream society; Amish culture and society

Curriculum, in Amish schools

D

Dalai Lama

Deacons. See also Leaders, ordained

Death: Amish rituals for; finding meaning in

Decisional forgiveness

Democratic Talk Radio

Diary-writing

Diaz, G.

Die Botschaft (The News)

Die ernsthafte Christenpflicht

“Dirk Willems and the Thief Catcher,”

Discipleship tradition

Displacement

Dispute resolution: in Council Meeting; four-step process for; grudges and

Districts. See Church districts

Divine providence. See God’s providence

Divine punishment

Doblmeier, M.

Dobson, J.

Domestic abuse: in Amish community; forgiveness of

Donations: from Amish community; Amish gratitude for; inclusion of Roberts family in; management of; from outsiders. See also Funds

Dordrecht Confession of Faith

Duhamel.

E

Early Show

East Nickel Mines district

Ecclesiastes, on forgiveness

Educational system. See also Amish schools; Religious education

Electric power

Emergency transport

Emma (teacher): on day of shooting; on resuming school; update on, as of 2009,

Emotional forgiveness

Emotional healing: forgiveness as part of; progress in, as of 2009. See also Grieving

Emotional suppression: Amish anger and; outsiders’ perceptions of; self-renunciation and

Emotional trauma: of the children; of the parents

Emotions and emotional expression: Amish anger and; Amish grief and; cultural conditioning of

Engineers, Amish

English, the (non-Amish): in Bart Township; bonding with, in grief support groups; as neighbors; pardon of, as state’s responsibility; resentment by, of media coverage; support given by; as “taxi drivers,” two-kingdom theology and

English language: in Amish funerals; in Amish schools

Enright, R. D.

Ephesians

Episcopal Church

Esau and Jacob

Etown.edu/Amishstudies

Evangelicalism

Everything for Sale (Kuttner)

Evil: divine judgment and; earthly justice and; providence and

Evil and the Justice of God (Wright)

Excommunication: among Anabaptists; conditions for; practice of; shunning and. See also Shunning

Ex-members, forgiveness and pardon of

Exodus 20:4

Extended families

F

Faces of Forgiveness, The (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

Fetzer.org

Final judgment. See also Salvation

Firehouse. See Bart Township Fire Company

Footwashing

Forgetting and forgiving

Forgive for Good (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

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

Forgiveness and Reconciliation (Worthington)

Forgiveness Is a Choice (Enright)

Fox News

Free of Charge (Volf)

Free will

Funds, victim relief. See also Donations

Funeral processions

Funerals, Amish: benches for; customs of; non-Amish guests of; of shooting victims

G

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

Gender roles

Genesis 33:1-17

Georgetown, Pennsylvania; hit-and-run incident near; Roberts’ home in. 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

Gmay. 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

Gottlieb, A. M.

Government. See State headings

Graber.

Grace. 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)

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

Gun control debate

H

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)

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

Hunting season

Hurricane Agnes

Hurricane Katrina

Huyard family

Hymns. See Songs and hymns

I

“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

Individualism: Amish communal authority versus; anger and; forgiveness and; Gelassenheit versus; in mainstream American society. See also American mainstream society

Industrial Revolution

Insurance, Amish rejection of

Islam

J

Jacoby, J.

Japanese origami cranes

Jesus, discipleship and. 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

Judaism

Judicial system. See State authority

Justice. See Final judgment; God’s providence; Salvation; State authority and justice; Two-kingdom theology

K

Khaleej Times

Kime, J.

King, E.

Kraybill. B.

Kuttner, R.

L

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

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)

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

Love: Amish view of; of enemy; forgiveness and; shunning as “tough,”

Luke (Gospel): 23:34; as source for forgiveness

Luskin, F.

Luther, M.

M

Mainstream society. 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)

Mary Liz

Matthew (Gospel): forgiveness stories in; as key source for Amish forgiveness; Lord’s Prayer located in; as source on divine providence. See also Sermon on the Mount

Media coverage: of Amish forgiveness; Amish reactions to; non-Amish resentment of; on-site, on day of shooting; at schoolhouse demolition. See also Journalists; Publicity

Members Meetings

Memoir-writing

Memorial poems

Men: clothing of; nonresistance and; roles of

Mennonites: versus Amish; history of; as Martyrs Mirror compilers

Mental health services, for Amish in aftermath

Meyers, T. J.

Military service, nonparticipation in

Miller, J. (Jeffrey)

Miller, J. (Joe)

Mine Road

Minister Amos

Ministers. See Leaders, ordained

Minow, M.

Miracles

Missionary work

Moms in Touch prayer group

Monroe County, Wisconsin, attack incident in

Moral order

Mount Hope, Ohio

Mourning rituals. See also Funerals; Grieving

Movies

“Multiply,”

Murphy, J. G.

Mutual aid, Amish: biblical origins of; and communal responsibility for forgiveness; outside employment and; and rejection of outside aid; in shooting aftermath; tragedy preparedness and

N

Nappance, Indiana, violent robberies in

Narcissism

National Catholic Reporter

Nazi concentration camp

NBC Nightly News

NBC’s Today Show

New Hope School

New Testament: forgiveness in; precedence of, in Amish spirituality; shunning in. See also Bible; specific book headings

Nickel Mines Accountability Committee

Nickel Mines Children’s Fund

Nickel Mines community: autumnal events in; districts of; forgiveness at, analysis of; on-site observations of; update on, as of 2009, . See also Lancaster Amish settlement

Nickel Mines school. See West Nickel Mines School

911 calls, on day of shooting

No Future Without Forgiveness (Tutu)

Nolt, S. M.

Nonresistance; of Amish martyrs; stories and songs about. See also Gelassenheit; Self-defense

North, J.

Northeast Georgetown district

O

Obedience: sources of; transgression and. See also Gelassenheit; Ordnung

Observer

Occupations, Amish

Odone.

Offender, benefits of forgiveness to

Ohio, Amish settlements in

Old Order Amish: habits of; history of; spirituality of. See also Amish headings

Old Order Amish press

Old Testament: forgiveness stories in; lesser priority of, Amish theology; moral prohibitions in

Ontario, Canada

Ordnung: regulations of; submission to; updating and disagreements over; violation of. See also Transgression of Ordnung

Organic farming

Orlando Sentinal

Our Heritage

Outhouses

Outsiders. See American mainstream society; English, the (non-Amish)

P

Pacifism, Amish. See also Nonresistance

Pardon: conditions for; excommunication and; of ex-members; forgiveness versus; Members Meetings and; of outsiders, as state’s responsibility

Pathway Readers

Paul (Apostle)

Pennsylvania, Amish settlements in

Pennsylvania State Police. See State troopers

Pentecostals

Peter (Apostle)

“Peter Miller’s Revenge,”

Peters.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Philippians 4:8

Phone shanties

Photographs, posing for

Picayune, Mississippi

Plain Diversity (Nolt and Meyers)

Poems, memorial

Political debates, use of Amish example in

Political involvement, of Amish

Pope, A.

Population: of Bart Township; of Lancaster Amish settlement; of North American Amish

Power of Forgiveness, The (Doblmeier)

Prager.

Prayer. See also Lord’s Prayer

Prayer Book for Earnest Christians

Pride, publicity and. See also Humility

Protestant church: Anabaptist condemnation by; excommunication in; forgiveness and salvation doctrine in

Protestant Reformation: Amish martyrs during; Anabaptist emergence during

Providence. See God’s providence

Psalm

Psychology of forgiveness; and anger; and healing

Public schools. See also Amish schools

Public speaking: about Amish forgiveness and faith; aversion to

Publicity: Amish aversion to; Amish reactions to expectations and. See also Journalists; Media coverage

Punishment, divine versus earthly

Purification rituals

Putting Off Anger

Q

Questioning, giving up

Quilt, comfort

R

Rambo.

Reality, critique that the Amish ignored

Reconciliation: in communion season; forgiveness versus; update on, as of 2009

Redemption

Religious education: on Gelassenheit and forgiveness; informal imparting of; Lord’s Prayer in

Religious leaders. See Leaders, ordained

Remembering

Remorse: as condition for forgiveness; as condition for pardon

Repentance: as condition for forgiveness; pardoning and

Republican congressional leadership, critique of

Resentment. See also Grudges, letting go of

Reunions

Revenge: Amish rejection of; versus consequences; in mainstream culture

Rhoads, R.

Riddle of Amish Culture, The (Kraybill)

Rituals: of communion season; for death and mourning; footwashing; greeting. See also Worship services

Roberts, A. (widow)

Roberts. C.; Amish anger toward; Amish compassion for; on day of shooting; funeral and burial of; home of; milk truck job of; motivations of; personality of; preparations of, for shooting; Robert’s mother on; spokesperson for; suicide of; suicide notes of

Roberts, T. (mother): acts of grace of, to victims and families; interview with, in 2010,

Roberts family; Amish acts of grace to; Amish forgiveness of; gratitude of, for Amish forgiveness; meetings of, with bereaved families; ongoing interactions of, with bereaved families; schoolhouse visit of

Roberts Family Fund

Rolling Stone

Roman Catholic Church: and absolution; and Amish persecution; discipleship and; excommunication in

Romans:

Rose, N.

Rumspringa

S

Sacramento Bee

St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre

Salvation: Amish understanding of forgiveness and; final judgment and; shunning and

Sandage, S. J.

Saturated Self, The (Gergen)

School boards

School shootings

Schools. See Amish schools

Schwartz family

Scripps News

Secularism

Security, in Amish schools

Self-centeredness, as moral transgression

Self-defense, rejection of; biblical sources for; Gelassenheit and; in martyr stories. See also Gelassenheit; Nonresistance

Self-denial: dangers of; Gelassenheit and; happiness and; sources of; teaching, to children; Uffgevva and

Self-renunciation

Self-respect

September 11, 2001: comparisons with; forgiveness and

Sermon on the Mount: on anger; Lord’s Prayer located in; as source for Amish forgiveness. See also Matthew

Sermons: martyr stories in; typical delivery of

Servant, parable of the unforgiving: forgiveness-salvation linkage in; as source for Amish forgiveness

Settlements. See also Lancaster Amish settlement

Seventy-times-seven forgiveness parable: in martyr story; as source for forgiveness

Sexual abuse. See Domestic abuse

Seymour Missouri, hit-and-run incident in

Shachnow, S.

Shaming

Shiraev, E.

Shooter, the. See Roberts. C.

Shooting aftermath; Amish forgiveness in; demolition of West Nickel Amish School in; funerals in; gun control debate in; one week after; resumption of school in; several weeks after; status, as of 2009, ; support provided in

Shooting anniversary observances

Shooting day; Amish grapevine communication about; date and time of; emergency transport on; fall season and; media presence on; Robert’s mother on; scene of; sequence of events; victim’s self-sacrifice on. See also Victims of shooting; West Nickel Mines School

Shults, F. L.

Shunning; critique of, as hypocritical; excommunication and; and forgiveness; practice of; reasons for; restorative goal of

Sibling conflicts, forgiveness in

Simons, M.

Sin, violation of Ordnung versus

Singings

Slabaugh, E.

Snyder. A.

Social conflicts, application of Amish forgiveness to

Society Security, Amish rejection of

Soderstrom.

Solar energy

Songs and hymns: at Amish funerals; in Amish school; on discipleship; sung by youth; that teach Gelassenheit; traditions of

Speed, of offering forgiveness

Spirituality, Amish: characteristics of; forgiveness in; in stories and songs. See also Amish faith; Gelassenheit

Spong, J. S.

Stanford University Forgiveness Project

State authority and justice: Amish relations with; Amish respect for; two-kingdom theology and

State support, renunciation of

State troopers (Pennsylvania): Amish praise for; on day of shooting; in funeral processions; at 2007 reunion

Stephen, stoning of

Stevick, R. A.

Stoltzfus family

Stoning parable

Stores, Amish

Stories and storytelling: about Amish martyrs; about nonresistance and forgiveness

Strong Families, Safe Childrenn

Submission. See Gelassenheit

Suicide: forgiveness for; Roberts’

Suicide bombings

Sunflower, The (Wiesenthal)

Support for victims and families: from Amish community; funds for; from non-Amish. See also State support

Survivors’ guilt

Swearing of oaths, renunciation of

Sympathy

T

Tax-paying

Technology: Amish attitudes toward; in Amish farms; in Amish schools; Amish subgroup diversity and; and Amish youth; Ordnung and, ; for security; selective use of

Television: Amish rejection of; Amish-forgiveness coverage by; on-site coverage by

Terrorists, calls for forgiveness of

Today Show

Tough love, shunning as

Tourism, Amish-themed

Tragedies: Amish preparedness for; examples of other Amish; God’s providence and; problem of evil and; redemption of

Train Up a Child (Johnson-Weiner)

Transcendence

Transgression of Ordnung: pardon of; self-centeredness and; sin versus

Tutu.

Two-kingdom theology: dilemmas of; earthly justice and; forgiveness versus pardon and; justice and; moral authority and

U

Uffgevva (to give up)

Umble. Z.

“Undeserved Forgiveness” (Jacoby)

Unforgiving servant. See Servant, parable of the unforgiving

U.S. Congress, critique of scandals in

U.S. Supreme Court

USA Today

V

Van Beckum, M.

Victims of shooting: funerals for dead; identification of; memorial poems about; recovery of injured; Roberts family as; Roberts’ mother’s ministrations to injured; surviving; trust fund for. See also Families of victims; Support for victims

Video games

Vieth, M. J.

Viewing of bodies

Vindictiveness, self-respect and

Violence: Amish inexperience with; Anabaptist renunciation of; mainstream culture of; other incidents of, against Amish; religiously fueled

Virginia Tech University

Virtue.

Visitation period, after death

“Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism” (Virtue)

Volf, M.

Voting

W

Wagner, G.

War on terror

Washington, G.

Washington Post

Watier, J.

Wealth, in Amish community

Weaver-Zercher.

Weddings

Weeping

West Nickel Mines district

West Nickel Mines School: demolition of; description of; Japanese students’ visit to; location of; on morning before shooting; new site for; replacement school for; Roberts’ mother’s visit to; teacher of; visitors at

West Nickel Mines School shooting. See Shooting headings

Whittman, M.

“Why Do the Amish Ignore Reality?” (Odone)

Wiesenthal, S.

Willems.

Wisconsin vs.Yoder

Witness

Women: clothing of; and forgiveness of abuse; mourning dress of; roles of

Worship services: elements of; hosting of; languages spoken in; prayer in; ritual greetings in; songs in. See also Communion

Worthington, E. L., Jr.

Wouters, J.

Wright, N. T.

Writing, as grief therapy

Y

Yancey, P.

Yielding. See Gelassenheit

Yoder, Wisconsin vs.

Youth