What happens when you step inside one of America’s most isolated Amish communities? Drew visits Lizzie’s childhood home in Ohio, where everyday life revolves around traditional methods, limited ...

What was the difference between the aristocrats who were viewed as enemies by the people during the French Revolution and ...

Two-thirds of measles cases in Pennsylvania have been among adults, a mirror opposite of how measles has typically spread.

And then another thought occurred to me. The Amish are one of America’s most important control groups. For generations, ...

Three Amish schools are suing the state of New York for levying $118,000 in combined fines against them for allowing ...

Have you ever heard of “churching“? Churching, officially Benedictio mulieris post partum (the blessing of women after giving birth), is an old Catholic tradition to purify a mother after childbirth.

A longtime midwife, who currently serves many Amish mothers in Lancaster County, is working to raise awareness about the importance of the MMR vaccine.

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When several New York midwives were arrested in 2020, it spurred these rural religious communities into political activism—and inspired a PBS film. Rewire News Group interviewed a midwife who was ...

You’re reading Awakenings, a newsletter on religion. Click here to get the full edition in your inbox. Paul Kingsnorth writes the Substack “The Abbey of Misrule.” Every week, it seems, brings another ...

BELLEVILLE, Pa. — In the parking lot of the Central Pennsylvania Clinic, horse-drawn buggies are hitched to posts. On the front door, a taped-up sign tells anyone with measles symptoms to return to ...