For over 90 minutes, two literary giants Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka and Prof J.P Clark sat side by side listening to a friend and author of The Call of River Nun, Pa Gabriel Okara.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with two Ursuline nuns who have been traveling down the Ohio River in a flatboat this week, re-enacting the trip taken by Ursuline sisters 130 years ago to establish a school.

Before my trip to Our Lady of the Rock, the Shaw Island monastery where seven Benedictine nuns pray and farm on 300 acres of land, I had never met a nun before.

That “sea-bird call” that “stills” the waves came on Sunday, March 24, and the Poet of the River Nun was just too human to resist the summons.

A nun in full habit went into the Russian River to try and help a family of four, but she also needed to be rescued by helicopter after she became trapped by the fast current, authorities said.

In the Gila River Indian community south of the Valley, one nun continues to make a difference by helping children fight obesity. “Knowing the propensity our people have for diabetes, we start ...