An NFL quarteback kneels in protest and ends up sidelined, possibly forever. Students walk out of class to express their disgust with school shootings. President Donald Trump is booed at a World ...

Nurse Kerri Lutjens looks over Rylan Hofer, an 8-month-old Hutterite, during a home visit at the Tschetter Colony near Olivet, South Dakota. AP OLIVET, S.D. — A spaghetti dinner with people in prairie ...

The 33-year-old nurse, who doesn't speak German, has spent the past few years gaining the trust of several communities of Hutterites, a deeply religious people with ancestral ties to the Amish who ...

Their writings are still read in church and their hymns are still sung. Actually, the Hutterite community owes its cohesion to a diffused charisma, of which each member is the bearer. The community, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Willowbank Colony, folks don't pay much attention to the approaching millennium. There's too much work to do. A crop must be tended. An order of wooden trusses has to be hauled out. Livestock must ...

"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 ...

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 ...