{"id":695,"date":"2006-10-09T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/10\/on-amish-bright-witness-to-hope.html"},"modified":"2006-10-09T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T11:19:00","slug":"on-amish-bright-witness-to-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/10\/on-amish-bright-witness-to-hope.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Amish: ‘Bright Witness to Hope’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best thing I read all week on the Amish community’s response to the murder of five of its children was this editorial<\/a> from The Dallas Morning News, written by Beliefnet’s own “Crunchy Con”<\/a> blogger Rod Dreher.<\/p>\n

“In our time, religion makes the front pages usually in the ghastliest ways. In the name of God, the faithful fly planes into buildings, blow themselves up to murder the innocent, burn down rival houses of worship, insult and condemn and cry out to heaven for vengeance… But sometimes, faith helps ordinary men and women do the humanly impossible: to forgive, to love, to heal and to redeem. It makes no sense. It is the most sensible thing in the world. The Amish have turned this occasion of spectacular evil into a bright witness to hope. Despite everything, a light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Best thing I read all week on the Amish community’s response to the murder of five of its children was this editorial from The Dallas Morning News, written by Beliefnet’s own “Crunchy Con” blogger Rod Dreher. “In our time, religion makes the front pages usually in the ghastliest ways. 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