A Hill to Die On This is the chalk presentation I did in Ohio at the Amish Awareness Conference in March 2018. In this presentation I share several stories of how God worked in my life to prepare me for making the film series as well as things that God taught me during the making …
We are grateful for a great review by The Dove Foundation. Here are a few highlights: Dove Review – highlights “Breaking the Silence is a wonderful, enlightening and educational tool for those who have always wondered about the Amish and exactly who they are. Who are these people that shun modern advances in technology and live …
We are excited to be able to release part of this documentary project to DVD and digital this month. We are already shipping The Amish and the Reformation DVDs to all those who pre-ordered. Here is my Mom with a few copies of the DVD. You can see all the available ways of watching The …
Many of you have been asking when our film project will be coming out. Good question! Originally we thought we would release in 2015, but that was before we expanded the project from a feature length documentary into a six part series. Here is 2016 update for Breaking the Silence Breaking the Silence 2016 Update …
One of the first places we visited in Switzerland was Zurich. Although Zurich has a lot of attractions for the average visitor; we were interested in the religious history of the place. The Anabaptist heritage to some degree is rooted here in Zurich and especially in the Grossmünster. Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) was a leader of …
The scene here is along the Limmat River. This is the other side of the river as seen from the side where the plaque is that commemorates the drownings of early Anabaptist reformers. And the Grossmunster is in the background on the right. But I wanted to show you some art. Yes. The crane. …
I felt it was important enough to draw attention to this fact about Castle Trachselwald. I had said and thought I was correct for most of our trip since visiting Castle Trachselwald that it was also the home of people living there. Although that may have been the case at one time, it is not …
As you drive up the long driveway in the Jura Mountains in southern France up to the Graber Ancestral home at Mont-Prevoir; this is your first view. It is also the view that my uncle Ora Graber had put in his book, The Graber Immigrants 1650-1984. The place is currently a working dairy farm. The …
Hans Haslebacher was born near Sumiswald around 1500 and lived in this house which is not far from there in Kleinegg. Direct descendants of him still live in the house today and run the farm and dairy at that location. If you are Amish, Ex-Amish or are familiar with Anabaptist history, this name should ring …
There is a farmhouse on up the mountain from Trub, Switzerland that provided a hiding place for Anabaptists in that area. We drove on past Trub and Fankhaus and kept going up the mountain. Finally we reached this little farm. The building is typical for Switzerland as the house and the barn are in the …