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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A federal judge in South Dakota has rejected a request to dismiss charges against a Hutterite religious colony accused of negligence in a deadly traffic crash, which could send the ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) A character on a National Geographic Channel documentary series about a rural Hutterite colony defended his community and the production company after Hutterite bishops criticized the ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - Driving through Missoula, you might have seen a sign to reserve your Hutterite turkeys at the Pattee Creek Market. "This is a time of year people look forward to (buying turkeys) and ...

ALEXANDRIA, S.D. -- An Oak Lane Hutterite Colony man pleaded guilty this week to felony child abuse for his role in striking a boy. Jake Wipf, 61, pleaded guilty Tuesday at the Hanson County ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - People in Missoula are crowding grocery stores to pick up their Hutterite turkeys. The doors are constantly opening as customers rush in to get Thanksgiving food. "I'm finding ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has ruled that forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers' compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an ...

(RNS) Members of a Hutterite colony in Montana that's the focus of a new National Geographic reality show say the series is a ``distorted and exploitative'' depiction of their life that is not what ...

Hutterites are Protestants of German descent whose traditional, religious-centered lives have been compared to that of the Amish and Mennonites, but they live in commune-like colonies in rural areas ...

Brenda Hofer always knew someday she’d leave. "Someday I’m out of here," she’d tell visitors at the Hutterite colony in Fort Benton, Mont., where she lived. And if she had to, she’d run away with the ...

HUTTERITES OF MONTANA. Photographs and Text by Laura Wilson. Yale University Press, $39.95. "IN the West, there's hardly a belt buckle or a spur, let alone a cowboy, that hasn't been photographed, or ...

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 ...