Middlemarch And Hutterites

Middlemarch And Moral Beauty

George Scialabba | 11th March 2026 | U

Everything one needs to know about moral beauty can be found in George Eliot's masterpiece of a novel. "Middlemarch is virtually a chrestomathy of moral wisdom, proffered in a narrative voice that is all-seeing, all-comprehending, all-forgiving: the closest approximation to God's voice in English literature. It is also exquisitely witty, which we are free to imagine God being as well" (2,200 words)

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A Plain Anabaptist Story: The Hutterites

Ulmer | 23rd February 2026 | U

The unlikely demographic story of how a tiny group of 16C Swiss Christians became a 58,000-strong sect concentrated in communal colonies in North America. Initially, they found a haven in Moravia, then shifted to Transylvania, then Ukraine, then South Dakota, before finally coming to rest in the 20C mostly in Canada. For a while, the median number of children born to a Hutterite woman was 10.4 (2,100 words)