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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hutterites take their name from Jacob Hutter, whose last name means “hat-maker,” from eastern Europe, one of the leaders of the Anabaptist movement of the 16th century Reformation era. Hutter was ...