New stories about the plural and powerful nature of religion in the United States, past and present.

New stories about the plural and powerful nature of religion in the United States, past and present.

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A Curated Resource of Media from the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021

The third president’s attempts to revise Scripture offer a warning about our own tendency to “edit” the truth.

What the third president’s unorthodox cut-and-paste project can teach us about our longings and our politics.

The president preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly.

Jefferson revised the Gospels to make Jesus more reasonable, and lost the power of his story.