Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Gerry Stark stood in the center of the East Baton Rouge Library at Jones Creek on Feb. 4, surrounded by women and piles of plastic bags. Spread out at tables, these women, who make up just a small ...

A purple and white striped beanie hat with green accents. A yellow cap with a matching pom-pom on top. A red beanie with black trim and an olive green beret. Those are among the couple dozen hats a ...

For the past few years, crocheting has become a Gen Z phenomenon. A simple search of “crochet” on TikTok displays thousands of videos, some with hundreds of thousands of views of users’ yarn and hook ...

While 84-year-old Betsy Harris-Dotson is supposed to be retired from her more than 40 years of volunteering as financial secretary at her church, Mt. Zion United Methodist Church-Magothy in Pasadena, ...

Emmanuella Erhunmwunsee, the founder and president of Off the Hook, a philanthropic crochet student group at Boston University. Students in the group crochet handwarmers to donate to the homeless.

A group of women are on a mission to comfort the homeless, transforming the most basic material, plastic bags, into something helpful and beautiful. They're folding, cutting and weaving mats by hand ...

WAUSAU − More than 3,500 plastic shopping bags have been repurposed into sleeping mats for Wausau residents experiencing homelessness, according to a community announcement. The call for donations was ...

Generations are getting together to crochet in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and to keep the centuries-old craft thriving.