In 1983 Kay English visited the homeland of Menno Simons, the contemporary converted Catholic priest and father of the Mennonites and Amish who published his pacifist pamphlets. "God's kingdom is in our hearts," he wrote.
She saw through time to the elders of Muenster who threw Brother Menno's letters into the fire and build a great wall to keep sin and heresy from their great city in order to issue in the second coming of Christ.
Kay decided that Menno Simons had been a man of great vision. Why had some of his followers frozen their lives in The Olt German Way?
And what about the Amish man who asked her to marry him sixteen years earlier?