Nona Lovell Brooks (March 22, 1861 – March 14, 1945), described as a "prophet of modern mystical Christianity",[1] was a leader in the New Thought movement and a founder of the Church of Divine Science.

[3] In 1890, with the aim of becoming a teacher, Brooks enrolled at Pueblo Normal School, which was followed by a one-year stay at Wellesley College.

[9] After World War I Brooks succeeded her sister Fannie James as head of the college and in 1922 Brooks aligned the growing Church of Divine Science with the International New Thought Alliance.

[3] In the early 1930s she moved to Australia, where she established several Divine Science organizations, returning to Chicago in 1935[10] and then back to Denver in 1938.

[3] Nona was described by many who knew her as warm, gentle, and "motherly", but with "a strength that came from conviction".