Audiobooks by Donald B. Kraybill

Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers

On the night of September 6, 2011, terror called at the Amish home of the Millers. Mrs. Miller opened the door to her five estranged adult sons, a daughter, and their spouses. Within moments, the men had pulled their frightened father out of bed and sheared his hair and beard. The women then turned on Mrs. Miller, yanking her prayer cap from her head and shredding it before cutting off her waist-long hair. About twenty minutes later, the attackers fled into the darkness, taking their parents' hair as a trophy. Four similar beard-cutting attacks followed, disfiguring nine victims and generating a tsunami of media coverage. Ten men and six women from the Bergholz community were arrested and found guilty a year later of eighty-seven felony charges involving conspiracy, lying, and obstructing justice. In a precedent-setting decision, all of the defendants were convicted of federal hate crimes. Renegade Amish goes behind the scenes to tell the full story of the Bergholz barbers: the attacks, the investigation, the trial, and the aftermath. Donald B. Kraybill weaves a dark story in which a series of violent Amish-on-Amish attacks shattered the peace of these traditionally nonviolent people.

Donald B. Kraybill (Author), Charles Constant (Narrator)

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Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive

Business can be discouraging. A recent statistic showed an annual rate of over half-a-million business closures. According to US Department of Labor figures, only 44 percent of newly opened firms will last four years. That is, unless you're Amishthen there's a 95 percent chance you'll be doing well. And in many cases, remarkably wellas Donald Kraybill writes: 'the phrase 'Amish millionaire' is no longer an oxymoron.' The Amish business phenomenon began three decades ago and continues strong today, has been described in Kraybill and Steven Nolts Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes magazine and various other publications. Responding to changes in population and land pressures, the Amish are leaving farming in droves and opening successful businesses. Success Made Simple is the first practical book of Amish business success principles for the non-Amish reader. The work provides a platform of transferable principles that are simple and universal enough to be applied in the non-Amish world, in a wide variety of business and management settings. Readers will learn, among other things, how to: Develop productive and profitable enterprises Prosper by playing to their strengths Build fruitful relationships with employees and customers Empower and leverage their number one assetpeople Create an effective marketing story Gain satisfaction by focusing on business as a means to an end, not the end itself Success Made Simple is based on the ideas and words from over 50 interviews of Amish business owners. Amish businesspeople in their own jargon explain how they choose and manage employees, acquire skills and know-how, get and keep customers, develop a competitive edge, and lead their organizations. The book will focus on two overriding themes: the role of relationships in business and the importance of the big picture. Relationships include all of the important ties: with employees, customers, suppliers, other business owners. The big picture has a wide scope, including long-term goals, the welfare of others, and personal integrity. A basic overview of Amish beliefs and businesses opens the work, followed by seven chapters. Each one examines a main idea for practical application to non-Amish business and management situations. Ten-point summaries at the end of each chapter review the most important take-away ideas. Additionally, fourteen sidebars, two per chapter, cover poignant topics related to Amish business and culture.

Donald B. Kraybill, Erik Wesner (Author), Nick Sullivan (Narrator)

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The Amish Way: Patient Faith in a Perilous World

In this second book, Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt, and David Weaver-Zercher, authors' of Amish Grace, will shed further light on the Amish, this time on their spirituality and spiritual practices. The Amish Way interprets the distinctive practices of Amish spirituality in their cultural context and explores their applicability for the wider world. Using a holistic perspective, the text tells the story of Amish religious experience in their words and through their cultural lens, and compares it with other streams of spirituality. Written in a lively and engaging style, The Amish Way will appeal to a broad popular audience.

David L. Weaver-Zercher, Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt (Author), Steve Coulter (Narrator)

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Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy

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. Outsiders often hold a stereotypical view of the Amish as a stubbornly backwards people-a view rooted In the picturesque images of buggies, beards, and bonnets. But there is a much more to know about the Amish as a people, as we discovered after the Nickel Mines incident. The community's collective and radical act of forgiveness-the loving and compassionate 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 beliefs that led the Amish to forgive so quickly. In a world where religion spawns so much violence and vengeance, the surprising act of Amish forgiveness begs for deeper consideration. "a story our polarized country needs to hear: It is still grace that saves."-Bill Moyers

David L. Weaver-Zercher, Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt (Author), Paul Michael Garcia, Paul Michael Garcia, Richard Powers (Narrator)

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