As the UPN network releases its reality TV show, Amish in the City, many are decrying the insensitivity of the network to create a program about people who believe pictures are graven images forbidden by God. But the Amish are more than a curiosity, as the following Christianity Today articles show.
Amish in the City: Has Reality TV Gone too Far?
The author of The Amish: Why They Enchant Us discusses why a television show about Amish teens is inherently flawed, and why we're drawn to their 18th-century ways. Interview by Rob Moll | posted 01/21/2004
Threatening the Amish
How the Amish solve the legal problems of civil liberties Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 12/15/2003
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