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This fellow they've nominated claims he's the new Thomas Jefferson. Well let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor... You're no Thomas Jefferson!

— Ronald Reagan, 1992 Republican National Convention

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Amish Confidential: The Bishop's Son Shatters the Silence

Dave's Book Reviews

Amish Confidential: The Bishop's Son Shatters the Silence

by Chris Burkholder

Even though I grew up near Amish country, I don't really know any Amish people but I have seen their wagons on the road and their farms. I was in my local library browsing the new non-fiction books, when I came across Chris Burkholder's Amish Confidential.

Amish Confidential is Burkholder's autobiographical narrative describing his childhood in an old order Amish community. Over time Burkholder pulls further and further away from the Amish and his father, a powerful Amish Bishop.

I found this to be a deeply disturbing book.

Continue reading Dave's review of Amish Confidential

"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ..." Amendment I, United States Constitution "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret." Eph 5:11-12 KJV
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