Donald B. Kraybill is Distinguished College Professor, Senior Fellow, and Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Elizabethtown College., Pennsylvania. Internationally recognized for his scholarship on Anabaptist groups, with a particular emphasis on the Amish, Professor Kraybill is the author or editor of many books and dozens of professional articles.

He is also well known for Upside-Down Kingdom, written in 1976 and published in 1978, with the purpose of reconciling his sociological training and perspectives with theological ones. His newest book, What the Amish Teach Us, is a collection of 22 short essays that infuse storytelling with informative reflections. Each essay is a lesson that the author has learned from the Amish.

Interview Timestamps

0:00 Simon meets Donald, a Re-union after 35 years, 4:06 Family background 1945: farming, Mennonites, Youth for Christ and Pacifism 14:45 Anabaptists and the Sermon on the Mount : What does it mean to follow Jesus in daily life?: 27:33 College and the 1960s: Marx, Weber, the Vietnam War, Honduras, Amish friends 38:38 Marriage and ordination: A cognitive dissonance between Amish church and graduate studies 49:50 Graduate studies: Peter Berger, The Homeless Mind, Rumor of Angels and is the concept of God is socially constructed. 58:30 Upside-Down Kingdom 1977: The historical Jesus, counter cultural (upside-down) kingdom 1:11:00 Our Star-Spangled Faith: The separation of church and state 1:15:38 Academic Career PhD 1975: Harrison Ford and Witness (1985), bargaining and negotiating with modernity. 1:30:34 The shadow side of Anabaptism: The Bergholz Barber case 1:44:12 Christianity, the American State and Donald Trump 1:51:07 What the Amish Teach Us: current work, and autobiography -- For all things ExtraECC, go to: ExtraECC.com Audio versions of these interviews are at: @extraecc Follow us on FB www.facebook.com/ExtraECC, and Twitter @ecc_extra