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An Amish bishop shared insight into his culture's faith, history, lifestyle and shunning as part of Tiffin-Seneca Public Library's Community Wide Read. When discussing faith, Bishop Jacob Beachy said Amish do not look down on those who are not Amish. "We don't feel that we are any better," he said. Beachy, who was ordained in 1970, talked at the library Saturday afternoon. Library patrons are reading--"Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish" by Joe Mackall.-- Beachy said Amish trace their roots to Switzerland. They migrated from Switzerland because of religious persecution and settled in Pennsylvania and Holmes County, he said. Click for a recommended article, By Jill Gosche, Tiffin Advertiser Tribune - Tiffin,OH,USA
