Archive for June, 2007
How to Be a Beachy: Lesson #1
Lesson #1: How to Pray in Church It’s time again for the midweek prayer meeting at church. You go because your parents make you. When you reach 21 in a couple years, you won’t have to go anymore. The moderator asks for prayer requests. Everyone starts to shuffle around, getting pen and paper ready. Don’t [...]
Super Beachy, Episode 1
Hello, readers. After a (moderately) successful, controversial, and succinctly wordy debut posting entitled “A Lamentation for the Decline of Modesty and Nonconformity among Women in the Beachy Amish Mennonite Constituency,” I’ve been subpoenaed by the Grand Intellect of Beachy Complex to give further testimony concerning the state of the Beachy Church in a series of [...]
11. The Daughters of Shiloh
Note to Discerning Beachys: The following story is a departure from the Chronology established heretofore. Due to a busy summer schedule, this may be the last story in the Beachy Saga for at least several months. Also, with the debut of my new series, Beachy Fairy Tales, in the next few weeks, it may be quite [...]
10. The Beachy Bargain
The Beachy Bargain And it came to pass that in the process of time that Isaac had had two sons, who were twins. And he named them Jacob and Esau, but Jacob was called Checky, for he was an good Beachy boy. (Not the Holiness Beachy Boy, mind you, but a good Beachy none the less.) [...]
