The Mennonite population being affected by a measles outbreak in West Texas is part of a larger, loosely affiliated group of churches worldwide with varied beliefs and leadership structures — and with ...

Give the current administration credit. It's managed to energize American politics in the most unlikely places. And as I know from personal experience, and from a campaign a long time ago in an ...

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Conservative Mennonite communities around the world have lived as simply as possible for centuries. They don't drive cars and refuse to use electricity. In eastern Bolivia, where photographer Jordi ...

I’ve wandered through church traditions the way my family has migrated across the geography of the Americas. My mother came from Costa Rica, my father from Colombia. My sister and I were born in Los ...

Since the 1800s, Old Colony Mennonites have conducted their lives far away from the rest of society. The most insular and conservative sect of the Mennonite Church, they reject mainstream schooling, ...

Pacifism is a fundamental part of the Mennonite tradition, but in Mexico, 60,000 farmers of that faith have recently found themselves in a rather surprising Mad Max-esque scenario. Well, there’s no ...

(UNDATED) On the highways of American life, one might expect the “horse-and-buggy” Mennonites to be left in the dust. But this conservative Christian sect, whose members eschew the indulgences of ...

Homesteads dotting a pastoral landscape, families living by lamplight and men in straw hats riding horse-drawn carriages – the scenes in Jake Michaels’ photographs could easily depict bygone times in ...