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 ...

Doubts about the Hutterite way of life became overwhelming as Glenda Maendel prepared for her baptism.

Public education has always been complicated on Hutterite colonies, entangled in a jigsaw puzzle of rural school districts, special education cooperatives and small schoolhouses.

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. -- The local Hutterite colony is once again sharing their mountain of surplus potatoes with the community in a simple act of kindness.

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 ...

The first day Jason Waldner left the Hutterite colony where he was raised, he walked into a restaurant wearing “English” clothes. Without clothing identifying him as a Hutterite, no one stared ...

Hutterite bishops say a new National Geographic reality series that follows the members of a rural Montana colony gives a “distorted and exploitative version” of life inside a little-known ...

Glenda Maendel and eight other former members of Hutterite colonies have written a book chronicling their lives as Hutterites in rural North Dakota.