Brian Smith as Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Jeffrey D. Hoy as John Adams and Garrett Hinton as Thomas Jefferson signing the Declaration of Independence in a production of the musical, "1776," at Cocoa ...

My friend Andrew Stuttaford points to a piece at “Dispatches from the Culture Wars” that takes President Bush’s speech writers to task for misrepresenting Thomas Jefferson’s view of religion in a ...

Thomas Jefferson believed that religion was private, "solely between man and his God." For our national life he recommended simply a "general religion" of "peace, reason, and morality." Today his ...

The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of Jesus ...

Last weekend I visited Monticello, the Charlottesville residence of Thomas Jefferson. As I walked through that historic home, I couldn’t help but think about all his great contributions to our society ...

While serving as the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson embarked in 1805 on a secret, personal project that would occupy him for the next 15 years. He decided to edit the Christian ...

Dozens of students braved a “biblical, torrential downpour” Monday on the way to the University of Virginia Chapel to hear a talk about what place religion should have in politics, public service and ...

(RNS) — A copy of the Quran once owned by former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson will be displayed in the Unites States’ pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020, the world’s fair currently underway in the ...

One hundred and twenty-seven years after it was prepared, Thomas Jefferson’s personal 25,000-word abridgment of the Bible made its first public appearance last week under the title Jefferson chose for ...

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" : religion and the American Revolution -- "No king but King Jesus" : the Great Awakening and the first American Revolution ...