I grew up in Edgeley, and the Willowbank Hutterite colony was within our city limits. Although they only lived a few miles away, I never really gave the Hutterites much thought. We rarely saw them in ...

When someone leaves a Hutterite colony, it’s an ache like no other for those left behind, wrote Linda Maendel in her book, “Hutterite Diaries.” “From the cradle to the grave, Hutterites are cared for ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana’s 50 Hutterite colonies have a big impact on agriculture and Hutterites often sell their ...

A new reality TV show about life in a Hutterite colony in Montana gives outsiders a glimpse of a unique religious culture centered in the Northern Plains of North America. But it's also concerned many ...

This photograph is on display as part of the “Hutterite Life” exhibit at Goshen College. Various aspects of Hutterite history, faith and culture, from their European beginnings in the 16th century ...

Lisa Marie Stahl, a young Hutterite woman who grew up at the Gildford Colony near Havre, provides a rare public glimpse into the lives of the Hutterites, a communal religious group with colonies in ...