Hutterite Diaries

What would it be like to share all your possessions and live in Christian community? In Hutterite Diaries Linda Maendel offers a rare glimpse into the daily routines and communal faith of her people the Hutterian Brethren. From stories of working together to bring in the fall potato harvest to laugh-out-loud tales of sisterly love laced with revenge Maendel invites readers into her Bruderhof or colony nestled on the prairie of western Canada. Here children and adults work play eat and worship together crafting a community of goods and living out an alternative to the individualism and consumerism of mainstream society. Because few outsiders know anything about the Hutterites a Plain Christian group related to the Amish and Mennonites this book offer a rare-glimpse into Hutterite life.