Hutterite Challenges in 2017
It’s a New Year and 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. It’s difficult not to do a “then” and “now”...
Christmas on a Hutterite Colony
It’s a bitterly cold day at Springville Hutterite Colony in Alberta. I have joined the potato caucus and after a morning of peeling...
Hutterites Sponser Syrian Refugees
I was standing in line inside a local gas station in Prince Albert waiting to pay for my fuel when I was tapped on the shoulder by a man...
Hutterites Serving Quality to Aboriginal Communities
Jason Tschetter is an earnest young man. His hair is parted down the middle and neatly combed on each side in the traditional Hutterite...
Hutterite Headlines: Hutterites and Remembrance Day
I’ve always felt a tinge of guilt on Remembrance Day. No doubt it was intensified by the fact that I often had a front row seat at...
Hutterite Headlines: American Hutterites and the U.S. Election
I was 8 years old when Trudeaumania swept through the Fairholme Hutterite Colony in Manitoba where I grew up. Hutterites have...
Hutterite Headlines: Make Safety a Priority on Hutterite farms.
It happened again this year between seeding and harvesting. A 13-year-old boy was killed in a combine accident at one colony, a...