Today, as I write about Amish Grace, yet another tragic school shooting, this time at Northern Illinois University, is in the news. This book explores an event that took place in October 2006, where a non-Amish man shot several young Amish girls in cold blood at an elementary school near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The local Amish community was so quick to forgive the killer’s family that this story superceded the story of the shooting. The book discusses how and why the Amish have forgiven in this and other circumstances, and yet how they can shun their own friends and family members who fail to conform with the Ordnung, the Amish rules of order. My book group had voted to study this book, and it did lead to some interesting discussions.