The Bruderhof

Movement·Founded 1920 CE·About 3,000 people in roughly two dozen communities as of 2024, in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Paraguay, Australia and South Korea. The Bruderhof does not publish an audited membership figure; the count includes children and resident non-members.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Anabaptism → The Bruderhof

Branch

Community

who belongs, how you join, how it is organized
The Great Crisis — when the community expelled most of itself. Between 1959 and 1962 the movement closed Primavera and Wheathill and dismissed or excluded a large share of its members, some put out with nothing. Former members organised, published the Keep In Touch newsletter from 1989, and forced an accounting; the leadership issued apologies and invitations to return from the 1990s. Go deeper — context →
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