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On the lighter side, a trivial thing that absolutely charmed me when I first came to my church was seeing most of the children barefoot on Sunday morning. :up: unless it’s freezing, there’s an extremely high chance some of my kids will be barefoot at church. 8 year old might be wearing a suit, but ...

Question: Do you think it's perhaps time to start checking out of interconnected life? Giving up smartphones for example? I posed the question to my wife yesterday and she liked the idea. One of the biggest takeaways was that I was shocked at how little I paid attention to surroundings and landmark...

In the mail yesterday, I got 4 facsimile copies of the1950 Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook that my mother used to teach me to cook. No convenience foods in the recipes, no noveau cuisine, but a novice can learn to make anything from perfectly boiled eggs to baked Alaska. I am working on collecting ...

On the lighter side, a trivial thing that absolutely charmed me when I first came to my church was seeing most of the children barefoot on Sunday morning.

I'm the outlier--#2 on the poll--I was raised as a spoiled and very nearly free range only child in the '60s and '70s. The few restrictions I had were rather odd and mostly things my parents (raised during the Depression) considered a waste of money. For example, no "belly wash" (soda pop)...

Neto said: The Old Order Amish (I guess that's what they should be called - I mean before the New order were formed), 75 years ago also did not wear covering during the week. (At least judging from the few pictures my wife's parents had from before they married, and soon after. This would have been...

Neto said: The Old Order Amish (I guess that's what they should be called - I mean before the New order were formed), 75 years ago also did not wear covering during the week. (At least judging from the few pictures my wife's parents had from before they married, and soon after. This would have been ...

Second, I don't think CAs generally put the same level of effort into discipling seekers as they do their own children. Please expound on that. All seekers are not the same: #1 Fairly mature believers who come because through Bible study, they have discovered an affinity with Anabaptists that they ...

I am also a lifer #4, over twenty years now as a member of the same Beachy congregation. (I was a seeker for 10 years or so before I joined.) I'm also the only #4 in my congregation. I have seen seekers passing through CA groups fairly often. Two things seem to me to contribute to that. First, some ...

And I am strongly in favor of simplicity in personal lifestyle choices. Funny how that is progressive.