The Cult of the Real Housewife investigates allegations of cult-like control and financial abuse surrounding Mary Cosby and ...

To outsiders, Ann Lee was a madwoman, a dangerous nonconformist and a sexual deviant; but to her faithful, “Mother Ann” was ...

While reading Mr. French’s column, my thoughts went immediately to Soren Kierkegaard, a 19th-century philosopher whose life ...

While in production on her second feature, “ The World to Come ,” Fastvold had stumbled upon a vast archive of Shaker worship ...

With wry understatement, she adds, “I also happened to believe it was true.” The book arrives at a moment when conversion may ...

But Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee balances the tight rope of historical drama and religious baggage beautifully. Ann Lee (Amanda Seyfried) is the religious leader of a group known as the ...

The film follows the real-life story of Ann Lee (Amanda Seyfried), who in the 18th century was the founding leader of the Shaker Movement and was proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers.