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 ...

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 ...

Glenda Maendel’s German-influenced intonation is in keeping with a North Dakotan accent, although certain sounds in her soft voice hint at an unfamiliar dialect. Her voice’s German lilt is stronger ...

N.D. Hutterites says they are unfairly portrayed by ex-members of the religious community INKSTER, N.D. -- Ex-members of the Forest River Colony of Hutterites near Inkster, N.D., are speaking out ...

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 ...

Doubts about the Hutterite way of life became overwhelming as Glenda Maendel prepared for her baptism. The daughter of the minister on her North Dakota colony, Maendel wrote that she “knew in my heart ...

OLIVET, S.D. (AP) — A spaghetti dinner with people in prairie dress and a church service in German is all in a day’s work for Kerri Lutjens. The 33-year-old nurse, who doesn’t speak German, has spent ...

OLIVET, S.D. – A spaghetti dinner with people in prairie dress and a church service in German is all in a day's work for Kerri Lutjens. The 33-year-old nurse, who doesn't speak German, has spent the ...

"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 ...