{"id":1245,"date":"2006-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2006-10-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T04:00:00","slug":"amish-forgiveness-offers-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2006\/amish-forgiveness-offers-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Amish Forgiveness Offers Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The subdued reaction of the Amish to the killing of five girls at the one-room school in Bart Township, Pa., reflects their theology, culture and history, says Earl Zimmerman, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/bible\/\">religion<\/a> professor at EMU, who attended grades 1 through 8 in a one-room Amish school about 30 miles north of the site of the killings.  \t<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 75px\" class=\"photo left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/news\/images\/zimmeres.jpg\" alt=\"Earl Zimmerman\" \/><br \/>Earl Zimmerman<\/div>\n<p>It is a philosophy and way of life that permeates what is known as the Anabaptist church family <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The subdued reaction of the Amish to the killing of five girls at the one-room school in Bart Township, Pa., reflects their theology, culture and history, says Earl Zimmerman, a <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2006\/amish-forgiveness-offers-lessons\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Amish Forgiveness Offers Lessons<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5589,12503,265],"tags":[5757,5790,9055,9105,5974,17402,6232],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-and-religion","category-cjp","category-seminary","tag-amish","tag-barry-hart","tag-donald-b-kraybill","tag-forgiveness-and-reconciliation","tag-howard-zehr","tag-peacemaking","tag-restorative-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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