Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Daniel Beiler, 33, an emergency medical technician and aid volunteer who grew up in a traditional Amish community in Pennsylvania.
An Amish family walks through a field.
He taught me that there were other Amish people questioning things — and eventually the Amish system couldn't hold us anymore.
When a storm comes through and the electric goes out, life kind of slows down, and I don't like that feeling.
My family don't have any technological restrictions now, but we haven't embraced too much trash culture.
Persons:
—, Daniel Beiler, Ted Shaffrey, I'd, Beiler, Posnov, William Thomas Cain, excommunicating, wouldn't, it's, Jessica Melanson, We've, Tom, Jerry, I'm
Organizations:
Service, Business, Getty, ISIS
Locations:
Pennsylvania, Lancaster County , Pennsylvania, America, Iraq, Dnipro, Ukraine, Philadelphia, Syria, Bolivia, Idaho