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We call ourselves the Fellowship, or sometimes the Church of God, but the world knew us as the Plymouth Brethren - Ken FollettThese Mennonite colonies are self-policed, except in cases of murder. The bishop and the elders came up with a solution to the problem of how to punish the offenders: they would lock all nine men into sheds and basements for three or four decades - Miriam ToewsIvan Chistyakov: diary of a Gulag prison guardSarah Gerard: going 'Diamond' with AmwayMatilda Gustavsson: a false religious miracleLauren Hough: growing up in the FamilyAatish Taseer: with the Brahmins of BenaresNew fiction by Luke Kennard, Lara Vapnyar and Adam Thorpe Poetry: Will Alexander, Fen Sun Chen, Kelly Schirmann and Javier Zamora Plus, Emmanuel Carr,re on photographer Darcy Padilla, and the relationship with her subject, Julie Baird Photography by Tomas van Houtryve and Fran,oise Huguier, introduced by Eliza Griswold and A.M. Homes