#hutterish

One of my best friends in college (and now) was a Bruderhof/Hutterish girl in my department. We went to a Catholic university, and we bonded over being outsiders-- Christians, but a kind of Christian others find weird; Christians, but not the majority. We met-met and became instant friends on the last day of our Junior year after being in a lot of the same classes, but never really talking. Our senior year, we connected again and were in a ton of the same classes, for one of which we spent a lot of time studying/reading together.

Anabaptist life and intentional community reminded me of Orthodox monasticism, and because the Hutterites are Slavic, we had a lot in common, culturally. I admire her so much. I stay with her at her community sometimes, and sometimes she'll go to a monastery with me.