How old is wesley hutterite

Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. User reviews Be the first to review. Details Edit. Release date July 24, United States. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 44 minutes. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Edit page. Hollywood Icons, Then and Now. Just another lousy reality show that oversimplifies a complex issue and no doubt caused a lot of problems for the people involved. I would encourage you to keep writing. Hi there! I was wondering if it is possible for an outsider to become a huterrite and how.

Thank you. The Bruderhofs are almost identical to the Hutterites and very open to outsiders becoming members. Try there first, if you find life too difficult on a Bruderhof, know it would have been even more so on a Hutterite colony. I enjoyed hearing your interview with Nora Young today. The focus on technology made me wonder how the Hutterites view the issue of conflict minerals finding their way into our cell phones and computers, which Nora dealt with in the second part of the program.

May we see a Hutterite running for office at some point? I have had curiosity about communitarian sects for a long time, because I admire the commitment to the common good demonstrated by them. Sadly for the world, individualism abounds and the effect is the systematic destruction of the planet by enterprises and governments seeking wealth for the wealthy over health for people, life and the planet. Sadly for the world, establishment of communities which embrace the communitarian ethic is difficult beyond utility.

I have cognitive disabilities which makes keeping a job in the extremely competitive employment marketplace difficult. The result is employment instability and perpetual insecurity. I am troubled by the idea that, not in the Hutterite world but mostly otherwise, we are each individually exposed to the raw vicissitudes of nature. While the fate of an individual is subject to so much randomness, we are expected to somehow manage without help.

I have Social Security Disability, but the amount paid to me is contingent on the wages I managed to earn in my tortured, unpredictable work life, and is in no way sufficient. What if I had not worked at all?

Could that be the actual story of so many homeless persons? Does it make sense to expect every person to be perfectly adapted to the world as it is?

Is there even enough room in the privileged class for everyone? The irony is that, even as I longed for community, before I began to feel the insecurities of maturity, I doubted I could give up my prerogatives as an individual. I wanted the chance that white North American culture offers to learn, travel, meet strangers, achieve, and perhaps acquire status.

I worried too of being captured in a dysfunctional communalist experiment. And I still want to get a degree and make my personal contribution to knowledge. Now as I struggle to create meaning in the latter third of my life, I long for the comfort of a community, of acceptance and embrace.

I would, in simple terms, like to have a life couched in community. As an atheist, I am keenly aware of the religious framework which makes your communities possible. The record of communal experiments favors this conclusion. What would I and my comrades have to say to each other if someone were to be tempted to follow an individualist path? That we have a social contract? That we have committed to the ideal of a shared fate? That other individualists will not trust them? That that individualist opportunity is worth less than the life with the group?

In the world we live in, with the opportunities it offers, the boundaries of community must be entirely internalized, and that may take a religious mind, a zealous mind, a mind not captured by modern objective critical individualistic thinking. My story is not just my story. The quest for the goods and luxuries bestowed upon the privileged of the west, which is so common in the world and pits all against all, suits the super rich just fine, because that hunger for stuff and status keeps so much of humanity enslaved to their economic system.

The Native Americans had to be removed from the land because they were too independent. Indigenous people today in North and South America are being killed and marginalized, because they are not beholden to the global economy and are uncooperative when the miners want to dig up their land.

Many elsewhere in the world are just trying to eat. But the vision they have is consumerist. So get on board with consumerist enslavement, or get killed. But we are all motivated to work if it means eating and being housed and having dignity! No, that reason is a lie. The real purpose of that vulnerability is to keep the poor poor, so the rich can continue to control the economy and manage it for their own wealth.

They know we cannot all be rich. And they who have will do what ever they need to to keep what they have, no matter what destitution results for the others. Individualistic personal gain is a promise which, for most of us, cannot be kept, and it is by hiding this impossibility that the super-rich endeavor to control us. Only your communitarian societies have enough force to succeed against the tide of individualism. I have never visited a Hutterite community, nor an Amish nor a Menonite.

I am unnerved by the degree of social control and loss of creativity. But I admire deeply that you would aspire to a common good. The world needs what you do. You may be among the survivors of the next great holocaust. Dear Mr. Hutterite, I am curious what is the attitude and treatment of Hutterite people with disabilities? If someone needed a wheelchair and was blind, how would the colony include them? What kind of jobs could they do on the colony? And it seems you are able to express some rather deep insights and complex political matters exceptionally well.

Personally I think you have been misdiagnosed. I wish I could write as well as you. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. He's more concerned with partying and sleeping until noon than doing colony work and taking on any responsibilities.

Toby is frazzled as he spends night and day with the calves at the neglect of his own family. Meanwhile, Claudia is feeling neglected because Bertha never spends mother-daughter time with her anymore. When Claudia and Bertha make plans on the same night as Carver's last basketball game, Bertha will have to choose between her two children. Clinton continues to act irresponsibly and when he gets arrested for driving without a license his mother decides she must act and kicks him out of the house.

The outside world is creeping into the lives of the colony members as Wesley seeks to dispel long-held Hutterite stereotypes and Claudia contemplates applying to college and leaving the colony for good.

After Wesley gives a tour of the colony to some ill-informed young adults he makes it his mission to spread the truth about Hutterite beliefs and traditions. Wesley decides that giving a presentation at the local university would be a good start to spread awareness to open-minded young adults.

Meanwhile, Claudia and Lori contemplate their futures and their desire to attend college. After a tour of the local university, Claudia and Lori take home applications but vow to keep it a secret because the ramifications for going away to college would be severe-they would have to leave the colony and make a lot of people very angry.

When the calving barn goes up in flames, the colony is up in arms trying to figure out who started it. Wesley is afraid it has something to do with the crazy barn party he and his cousins had the night before. They can't do anything to implicate themselves because something like this could keep them from getting baptized.

For Lisa and Melvin, their dreams of marriage would be shattered and for Wesley, despite all of his education and knowledge he still wouldn't have a vote on the colony.

All Claudia can think about is going to college. When she receives a letter from a local university her entire life is turned upside down and she now has to face the possibility of leaving her family and the only way of life she has ever known. Description Meet the Hutterites—a small religious colony in rural Montana who holds desperately to their sacred traditions while fighting the modern temptations of the outside world.

EPISODE 2 The Shunning Because Bertha and Rita, two of the key mothers of the colony, allowed their teenage sons to attend public high school and play sports, the elders from Canada pay a visit to the colony, and impose the worst punishment a Hutterite can ever receive - a shunning.

EPISODE 4 Battle of the Sexes Claudia is stirring things up on the colony when she decides that there is more to life than just cooking and cleaning and goes against tradition risking punishment to work with the men. EPISODE 5 Shoot to Kill It's hunting season and the colony is abuzz trying to kill their deer or elk in order to compete in a jerky competition and prove that their jerky is the best!

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