Yes, the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence and shook an angry fist at the world order when he declared that "all men are created equal" also wrote his own version of the Bible. The book ...

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson had a complicated relationship with the Bible. By the time he was elected the nation’s third president in 1801, the Founding Father had become a champion of separation of church and ...

Thomas Jefferson, apparently, didn't have any qualms about it. In his retirement, the nation's third president carried out a project he had contemplated for years: He cut and pasted passages from the ...

Several times a month, community columnists weigh in on matters of faith and values. The Faith and Values column appears Mondays, and features retired Methodist minister Paul Graves, of Sandpoint; ...

The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Edition: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson, will be released November 1 by Smithsonian Books. It is the first complete full-color version of ...

A couple of years ago, I teamed up with a pastor from Jefferson’s home town of Charlottesville, Virginia, Dr. Mark Beliles, to write a book on the faith of our third president. The book is Doubting ...

Without a doubt Thomas Jefferson is one of the most gifted men to occupy the presidency. However, there is another side of Thomas Jefferson that few people know about. Did you know there is a book ...

WASHINGTON — During a recent trip to Washington, I took in two exhibits on Thomas Jefferson at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History: one on slaves at Monticello and the other on the ...

Thomas Jefferson believed that his version of the New Testament distilled "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has never been offered to man." Universal History Archive / Getty Images ...