ABSTRACT
Mennonites, Amish, and Hutterites are all Christians who descend from various groups that were part of the sixteenth-century Anabaptist Radical Reformation. Their beliefs and sacred books are similar, but their practices and lifestyles are very different, ranging from horse-and-buggy groups to urban white, African American, Latino/a, and Asian congregations. The Amish population was 290,000 in May 2014, and they reside entirely within the US and Canada, with the largest populations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. 1 There are about 1.77 million Mennonites worldwide, with about a half million members in North America. 2 There are around 50,000 Hutterites, a communitarian society living in colonies located mainly in the Great Plains and intermountain states and provinces of the US and Canada. 3
