The trailer for the film "The Testament of Ann Lee" is riveting and unsettling — just as the celibate Shakers were to the ...

In 1774, a small group of splintered-off Quakers from Manchester boarded a rickety ship to America, led by the visions of an illiterate woman named Ann Lee, whom they believed to be the second coming ...

Ann has been seeking and preparing for spiritual insight her whole life, most earnestly in the small home church of “shaking ...

Lee, pegged by Fastvold as the “first feminist” of colonial America, was born in Manchester, England, in 1736. She would go on to become “Mother Ann,” leader of a radical new religious sect that ...

Who knew the founding of a 300-year-old celibate sect would turn out to be the hottest stomp-clap musical of the year? Mona ...

As Ann Lee flees Europe, her religion evolves and becomes the inspiration for American design today — a journey captured in ...

With "The Testament of Ann Lee", a movie about the founder of the 18th-century Shaker religious movement screening at the Venice Film Festival, director Mona Fastvold sought to honour a figure "on the ...

Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is joined by Interfaith Alliance colleagues Alyssa Klein and Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons ...

The Shakers were a utopian, egalitarian religious group, originally an offshoot of the Quaker community in eighteenth-century England, whose adherents dedicated themselves to God by separating ...

US actress Amanda Seyfried plays the title role in 'The Testament of Ann Lee' Norwegian director Mona Fastvold wanted to rescue the memory of early feminist Anne Lee 'The Testament of Ann Lee' cast ...