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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...