Miss America
Why weren’t Christians the ones to ‘ruin’ Miss America?
By Mandy McMichael — June 8, 2018
(RNS) — The little known history of how America's Christians got entangled with America's beauty pageant.
Bess Myerson on being the first (and only) Jewish Miss America
By Kevin Eckstrom — January 6, 2015
(RNS) Bess Myerson has been described as a modern-day Queen Esther, the Jewish woman who used her talents and beauty to advocate for her people.
Miss America has a faith-based platform for kids of prisoners
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — June 6, 2012
AUSTIN, Tex. (RNS) Laura Kaeppeler travels nonstop, wears stylish new outfits daily and attracts TV crews in every city she visits as the reigning Miss America. But the glamorous appearances go for a most unglamorous cause: a faith-based platform for the 2.7 million kids who have an incarcerated parent. By G. Jeffrey MacDonald.
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