List of Available Articles and Papers

The following is a list of items available here for reading and downloading.Last updated June 6, 1998.
"Out Of The Opium Den" -- My Life In the Bruderhof Communities 1988 - 1990 by John Stewart. A rejected member, still a devout follower of Jesus, describes his time in the Bruderhof communities. New edit April 22, 1998.
Chapter of a Life Story, by Ethan Martin, September 10, 1995
File K: Excerpts from newspaper articles from the COBI press conference, July 1995, September 10, 1995.
How I Escaped From The Bruderhof, by Ramon Sender Barayon, September 10, 1995.
Document Excommunicating The Bruderhof from the Hutterian Church , December 11, 1990.
Draft of A Bill of Rights for Religious Communities and Their Members, prepared by Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D.

The Media Packet Itemized

To Whom It May Concern Letter giving an overview of the current situation vis-a-vis the Bruderhof and various ex-members and concerned individuals. updated September 10, 1995
File A: The Society Syndrome, Depressive Illness and Conversion Crises in a Christian Fundamentalist Sect, by Julius H. Rubin, Ph.D.
File B: List of Alleged Abusive Incidents compiled from various sources. Although incomplete, it helps the reader form a picture of what some of the problems are that exist.
File C: Expelled Bruderhof Members Speak Out by Professor John A. Hostetler, noted authority on Amish and Hutterite groups.
File D: Excerpts from Daniel Hofer Sr.'s first appeal of a Canadian court's decision regarding the right of Hutterite elders to expel him from his colony.
File E: Letter from banker I. Donald Gibb to Hutterite minister Rev. John Stahl outlining a history of his banking relationship with various Hutterite colonies. He describes how Elder Jakob Kleinsasser defaulted on a large loan, and how he investigated further and discovered losses totaling over $40 million dollars due at the very least to mismanagement and poor investments. It was mainly due to Gibb's research and his alerting the Hutterian Church leaders that Kleinsasser was voted out of office.
File F: Stress and Conflict in an International Religious Movement: The Case of the Bruderhof, by Timothy Miller, Department of Religion, University of Kansas. Paper read at CESNUR/INFORM/ISAR Conference, London, March, 1993.
File G: The Abuse of Charismatic Authority Within the Bruderhof, by Julius H. Rubin, Ph.D. Presented at 'Power, Its Use and Misuse in Anabaptist, Mennonite and Brethren Communities,' July 25-27, The Young Center for the Study of Anabaptist and Pietist Group, and the Association of Mennonite Scholars and Anthropologists, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA.
File H: Heini Arnold and the Early Woodcrest Community, by Ramon Sender Barayon. Presented by Julius H. Rubin at 'Power, Its Use and Misuse in Anabaptist, Mennonite and Brethren Communities,' July 25-27, 1993, The Young Center for the Study of Anabaptist and Pietist Group, and the Association of Mennonite Scholars and Anthropologists, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA.
File I: Open Letter to the Bruderhof from a Workshop at the 1990 Friendly Crossways Conference for graduates and survivors of the Bruderhof.
File J: A list of Concerns and Suggestions compiled from various KIT Newsletters and from concerns expressed and experiences described at various KIT conference workshops.
If you wish the complete set of items listed above, which we call 'The Media Packet,' mailed to you, click here for ordering information. The cost will be $5/domestic, $10/ foreign postpaid.

Other Available Items

Our Broken Relationship With The Society of Brothers, by Samuel Kleinsasser. An article written to a request by the Schmiedenleut Conference of the Hutterian Church Committee regarding what stand the Schmiedenleut Conference of the Hutterian Church should take towards The Society of Brothers (Bruderhof).
If you wish the above item mailed to you, the cost will be $1. (Also you will find ordering info for a 118-page, hard-copy set of additional writings by Samuel Kleinsasser et al. on related topics) Click here for ordering information.
Why Do You Want To Join? A young man about to join the Bruderhof dialogues via e-mail with various ex-Bruderhofers before -- snap! -- "seeing the light!"
Some Observations on The Bruderhof, The Holocaust and Christianity by Charles Lamar. A discussion of Christian theology vis-a-vis The Bruderhof life and the Nazi Holocaust.
An Analysis of Some Bruderhof Traits by Ramon Sender Barayon. Some personalities' need for authoritarianism, a comparison of Nazi traits with some unfortunate Bruderhof parallels, and an informal analysis of elder Heini Arnold's character type.
Memories of the New Hutterite Bruderhof 1920, 1961 and 1993 by Herbert Sorgius. Recently deceased old member describes his arrival at the original German bruderhof.
The Monday Morning F Xways Meeting 8/12/91 as mentioned in the Best of KIT 1991, VOL. III.
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