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The remarkable response of the Amish community to the horrific shooting of ten schoolgirls at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, in October 2006 stunned the larger world. Amish Grace tells the incredible story of this community's reaction to this senseless shooting and explores its profoundly countercultural practice of forgiveness.

Outiders often hold a sterotypcal view of the Amish as a stubbornly backwards people--a view rooted in the picturesque images of buggies, beards, and bonnets. But there is much more to know about the Amish as a people, as we discovered afer the Nickel Mines incident. The community's collective and radical act of forgiveness--the loving and compassionte response to the shooter and his family--gives us insights into who the Amish are and how they live their faith.

Amish Grace explores the many questions the story raises about the religious beiefs that led the Amish to forgive so quickly. In a world where religion spawns so much violence ad vengeance, the surprising act of Amish forgiveness begs for deeper consideration.