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Sister Monica Clare is a nun at the Community of St. John Baptist, an Episcopal religious order based in Mendham, New Jersey. She is the Superior of the convent and will soon be an ordained priest. She is a trained spiritual counselor specializing in religious trauma, mental illness, and addiction. Her memoir, A Change of Habit, was released on April 29, 2025 by Crown and Sugar23 Books at Penguin Random House. Before becoming a nun in 2012, she worked as a photo editor in Los Angeles and was a member of the Groundlings Sunday Company. She started her TikTok account, @nunsenseforthepeople, in June 2021, to make people laugh and to demystify life as an Episcopal nun. To her great surprise, the popularity of her TikTok channel has continued to grow and she now has over 179K followers and 1.7M likes. (Information Credit: ​Sr. Monica Clare​) Book Available: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726581/a-change-of-habit-by-sister-monica-clare/ In preparation for Sr. Monica Clare's January 22 talk, we encourage you to purchase and read her book, A Change of Habit. The book also makes a lovely gift!