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But in other Pennsylvania Amish settlements buggies can be black, white or even yellow. The religious paths these Amish communities travel can be strikingly diverse. What emerges is a mosaic of Amish life and practice quite different from the common Amish stereotype.

Finacial pressures have forced the majority of the Amish to forsake farming for more lucrative business enterprises. Business owners tend to adopt technology more rapidly than farmers, leading to a mini- industrial revolution. Amish-style Buggies, once built of wood, now are often built of fiberglass. With more adults working in industries, family dynamics are beginning to change.

Buller's camera captures the changes sweeping across the Amish landscape. His interviews with authors/professors/researches Donald B Kraybill and Steven M Nolt provide uncommon insight into the Amish mindset.

Experience Amish farm life, family life, business enterprises, childhood, school, worship, horse cultures, business practices, barn raising, rumspringa (running around), Florida vacations, women's roles and more. Includes Amish response to Nickel Mines tragedy.

Copyright 2007 Buller Films LLC.

Longtime youth speaker/leader Mike Yaconelli also engages viewers with comments about faith and finding your calling in this video for youth-and the vocationally challenged of any age (that's the rest of us).

Short interviews with a bunch of youth and adults regarding their career choices, and thoughts on vocation round out the 14 minutes video. A study guide adds Bible passages and thought-provoking questions to help lead youth-and any interested adults-into a meaningful and perhaps life-changing discussion.

Copyright 2003.

The documentary (as shown on ABC-TV) tells riveting stories of persons who have faced anger and forgiveness in the face of violent or wrongful death, near-death from racial injustice, death of ancestors by genocide, and terminal illness.

Stories include: An Enemy Worse than Death-With the abduction and murder of their 13-year-old daughter, Wilma and Cliff Derksen begin the long path through grief toward forgiveness; Hospice Helps-Two families share how LifePath Hospice has helped them cope. Nathaniel, terminally ill, has to handle a deep family rift. The Ortiz family faces unresolved anger from their daughter's death by a drunken driver.; StoryKeepers: A Way to Heal-Susie Risho helps people heal from life's many griefs by telling their stories.; I'll Give You The Getting'-Watler Wangerin, Jr, Lutheran pastor and storyteller, shares the story of a couple facing cancer and how the wife dealth with her anger over her husband's illness.; Turning Hate Into Hope-The shooting of his brother by a white marshal, his own beating, and a bargain with God, led John Perkins to many years of work for social justice.; Forgive, But Remember-Lawerence Hart, a Cheyenne peace chief, tells the story of the Washita Massacre in Oklahoma in 1868 and a time of reconciliation 100 years later.; A Bigger Victim Than Myself-Bud Welch describes his journey from rage and temporary insanity to forgiveness after his 23-year-old daughter died in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.

Discussion questions included. Copyright 2001.

Closed- captioned.

Fierce Goodbye is first and foremost a penetrating account of a family dealing with suicide, and offers solid guidance for those who worry about the eternal fate of a loved one. It also provides a reliable and readable summary of Christian thinking about suicide, useful for pastors, counselors, students, and teachers.

Copyright 2004

The theme is stewardship-how youth today can share their gifts, time, talents, money and possessions. Musicians Joel and Aimee Pakan of Tangled Blue perform in a striking music video, "Gift of Grace." Cloverdale Church of the Brethren (VA) youth talk about the gifts of time they learned to give when one of their group experienced cancer.

Copyright 2002.

Copyright 2002.