A community of rural Mennonite Christians who purposefully deny themselves modern conveniences in order to live a more sin-free life. The strictest Amish live without electricity and gas, travel by ...

Bonnet rippers," " 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for church ladies," "evangelical erotica" ... Freelance writer Valerie Weaver-Zercher has read 40 to 50 of those popular Amish romance novels. And despite the ...

Calling someone nostalgic is an “affectionate insult at best,” Svetlana Boym has written, and few people appreciate the affection. Although the term has shed its medical connotations—it was first used ...

An Amish romance novelist is taking the Christian literature world by storm, selling close to a million books while setting pulses racing in the ultra conservative community. Linda Byler has been ...

(RNS) There’s something strange about Kerry Nietz’s new Amish romance novel. The pretty blond girl on the cover wears a white hair bonnet and has an innocent look on her face. But then there’s the ...