In a new memoir, Lisa McNair recounts growing up in Birmingham, Ala., after her sister Denise and three other Black girls were murdered in the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church.

Lisa McNair, whose sister Denise was one of the girls killed in the 16th St. Baptist Church bombing, forged a seemingly unlikely connection and friendship with Tammie Fields, whose father was ...

The Methodist Church has only about 800 deaconesses, the various Lutheran groups fewer than 700. There are about 800 Protestant Episcopal sisters in 15 orders — most of them offshoots of English ...