Amish Grace

This is a "popular academic" account of the Amish people and their response to the Nickel-Mines shooting. It provides a good introduction to Amish culture and its connection with Mennonite and other Anabaptist groups. The Amish have a history of martyrs and are against inflicting punishment on others. Thus, they were more than willing to comfort the family of the shooter. (They saw that the fmaily had also suffered, due to the loss of husband and father. They had forgiven the shooter and thus helped to comfort the others.)
It also gave a good account of the 'separatism' of the Amish. They shun car ownership because it breaks apart communities. They are still willing to get a ride in a car when in cases of special need (like hospital visits.) The communities are all self-controlled, and individual communities vote on whether or not to accept a new technology as beneficial or detrimental. (Thus we have the site of horse and buggies with modern lights and reflectors.)
The book does touch on some of the concerns people have with the Amish (such as 'shunning'), however, the view is primary positive in its view of the evolution and current implementation of Amish grace.