INKSTER, N.D. -- Ex-members of the Forest River Colony of Hutterites near Inkster, N.D., are speaking out about their former lives in the close-knit religious community based around a far-flung ...

We left the Hutterites in 1770, invited to settle in the Ukraine and the Volga region by Catherine the Great. In 1763 the Russian government issued a manifesto offering foreign settlers free land — as ...

This week has been oddly pivotal in Hutterite history. In response to the airing of the Natural Geographic reality television show American Colony: Meet the Hutterites, a collection of Hutterite ...

c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Hutterite bishops say a new National Geographic reality series that follows the members of a rural Montana colony gives a "distorted and exploitative ...

At 76, Paul Shaak of Allentown says he was “getting up in years” and didn’t know what he was going to do with the 1777 German Bible passed down to him through three generations. His kids didn’t want ...

A review of ‘I Am Hutterite’, Mary Ann Kirkby’s memoir of growing up in a radical Anabaptist community. Most evangelicals know a bit about horse-and-buggy driving, technology-shunning Amish and ...

Shutting out the world has allowed them to survive more than 400 years. The Hutterites, like the Amish and Mennonites, are a collection of Anabaptist Christian communities whose values stem from the ...

Brenda Hofer always knew someday she’d leave. "Someday I’m out of here," she’d tell visitors at the Hutterite colony in Fort Benton, Mont., where she lived. And if she had to, she’d run away with the ...

On a rainy Sunday evening following the first of its Long Table dinner series, the kitchen staff at The Resort at Paws Up collectively dug into a strawberry-rhubarb pie. "We brought out the forks and ...

"I Am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to Reclaim her Heritage," by Mary-Ann Kirkby, Thomas Nelson, 2010; 235 pages. Mary-Ann Kirkby grew up in the Fairholm Hutterite ...