MOORHEAD – Mary-Ann Kirkby knew she had a story to tell when she wrote her 2007 memoir “I Am Hutterite,” chronicling her upbringing in a Manitoban Hutterite colony and her parents’ decision to leave ...

Lisa Marie Stahl became a newspaper columnist when she was just 15, writing about the traditions and day-to-day activities of her Hutterite colony in north-central Montana. Her slice-of-life columns ...

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 ...

I used to live at Kilby Butte Colony near Roundup until I got married in 2012 and moved to my husband's colony in North Dakota. The colony where I now live, Forest River, is the same one from which ...

In an effort to reclaim her culture and discover what life would have been like had she not left her Hutterite colony as a child, Kirkby (I Am Hutterite) went back. For more than two years she visited ...

GILDFORD, Mont.- Some weeks, Lisa Marie Stahl writes about the most routine Hutterite happenings – a special meal at the colony or cattle branding. Other times, though, she answers questions she knows ...

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 ...

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. Midway ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — A TV documentary series about an Anabaptist community in Montana offers a “distorted” and contrived image, bishops representing the Hutterite faith in the U.S. and Canada said ...

TV review: On the surface, it looked like heaven on earth. A peaceful community, a place where everyone looked out for each other. Set deep in the tranquil Canadian countryside, Maple Grove was a ...