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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In their own personal chapter, nine ex-Hutterites write about a way of life they describe as a "very oppressive regime." All were members of a colony from the time they were born in the 1980s until ...

"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 ...

The Spittoon points to a new paper, Drawing the history of the Hutterite population on a genetic landscape: inference from Y-chromosome and mtDNA genotypes, which I've been meaning to look at more ...

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 German lilt is stronger than many ...