News of Jefferson’s Unorthodoxy Reached his Longtime Pastor
The Inklings of the University of Virginia
Jefferson’s Creeping Unbelief
[Pictured: photo by Jerry Newcombe of the Charlottesville courthouse, historic site of the evangelical church that Jefferson helped organize as a layman in the late 1770’s] Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic. Nor did he believe that God should be banished from the public square. By today’s standards, he might …