"This facsimile reproduction of the Jefferson Bible was published by Smithsonian Books in November 2011 on the occasion of the conservation and exhibition of the Jefferson Bible by the National Museum ...

Illustration by Katie Martin; images from Kean Collection / Getty; National Museum of American History Was Thomas Jefferson an atheist? Plenty of people thought so. Jefferson never identified himself ...

It must have been a peculiar sight: The author of the Declaration of Independence, seated in his Monticello mansion, cutting the Bible into pieces. But such was the pastime of Thomas Jefferson during ...

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 ...

Making good on a promise to a friend to summarize his views on Christianity, Thomas Jefferson set to work with scissors, snipping out every miracle and inconsistency he could find in the New Testament ...

Rick Santorum’s near-miss in Iowa provides a reminder that, for many Republican voters (and not a few candidates), religion and politics overlap. If you need another reminder, though, consider this: ...