Any film that dares to cover the life of a spiritual leader will likely run right into a high level of skepticism, scrutiny, derision and, yes, even some old-fashioned acceptance. Religion does hold ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the mid-1700s, Ann Lee helped start a religious movement preaching absolutely no sex. Nearly three centuries later, the Shaker ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lee, pegged by Fastvold as the “first feminist” of colonial America, was born in Manchester, England, in 1736. She would go on to ...

From humble beginnings in Manchester to leader of a radical religious sect she took to America, who was Ann Lee?

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 ...

Canterbury Shaker Village has received a $2,500,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. The grant will support the Village’s reinvigoration of ...

A new film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” is shining a spotlight on the religious group that established two villages in New Hampshire A new film playing in theaters now, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” is ...

The Testament of Ann Lee” and Shaker traditions represent how movement has been a constantly evolving conduit to heaven.

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 ...