The Amish (Old Order)

Denomination·Founded 1693 CE·est. 410,955 in North America as of June 2025 — adults and children — in 3,114 church districts and 684 settlements across 32 states and three Canadian provinces. Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College. The population has roughly doubled since 2000 and doubles about every twenty years.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Anabaptism → The Amish (Old Order)

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who belongs, how you join, how it is organized
Meidung, and what it has cost. The ban is the only enforcement the church has, since it will not go to law and has no salaried officer to appeal to. It works — and the same machinery that keeps a district together has repeatedly handled sexual abuse as a sin to be confessed, forgiven and closed within the church rather than a crime to be reported. Go deeper — context & 1 source →
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