The Hutterian Brethren, or Hutterites, is a religious group originating from the Reformation in the 16th century. Hutterites and Mennonites (and the Amish) share common roots. Both sects are ...

LAKE BENTON, Minnesota — A Hutterite community in southwest Minnesota plans to build a hog feedlot as it recovers from a 2020 fire that killed thousands of pigs. Heartland Hutterian Brethren Inc. in ...

HELENA, Mont.—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 unconstitutional ...

GRAND FORKS - 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 ...

CONRAD, Mont. -- If it wasn't for the Hutterites, the Big Sky State would be home to only a small number of hogs. Forty colonies account for a whopping 95 percent of Montana's hog production. David J.

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 ...

The sheltered, simple life of a traditional religious colony isn’t what it appears on the surface, say members of a group who rejected their upbringing and are making a new life for themselves in ...

Hutterites are Anabaptists, originally from Germany and Switzerland. They moved to Austria and Ukraine. In the 1880s, about 400 came to settle at Bon Homme County in South Dakota, on the southern ...

Thirty-five years ago, as a young Methodist minister, Donald W. Huffman watched a community explode. “We could look out our window and see the fires burning in the Hough,” says the retired professor ...

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 ...