Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is the second half of the 19th century, and there were great changes for the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second ...

A critically acclaimed film and major museum survey find more in the history and culture of the Shakers than benches, brooms ...

Hundreds of visitors toured Shaker Village and its historic barn in New Gloucester, Maine, on Sunday during Open Farm Day. (Clarke Canfield/Courthouse News) NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine (CN) — At its peak ...

In the trailer for The Testament of Ann Lee—the Amanda Seyfried drama in theaters now—you’ll see much of what you might expect from a film about early American religion. There’s spirited devotional ...

Many of the tenets that 18th-century Shaker movement founder Ann Lee espoused hundreds of years ago could well enlighten today’s not-always-inclusive culture, says Amanda Seyfried. Related Articles ...

Gay blades from Pittsfield, Mass., riding past the big brick house a century ago, might have smiled to hear them singing: Oh, it is by holy living That we gain an entrance there; For communion with ...

An almost extinct celibate Christian sect is enjoying a 50 percent increase in its numbers—going from two members to three. Speaking with NPR, the new member, Sister April Baxter, 59, said she had ...

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