When they were both older men, and no longer political rivals, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson began to correspond. Benjamin Rush helped bring them back together. Some of their correspondence is very helpful to understand the men, at least in later life. One time, John Adams was ruminating on the …
It would be safe to say that, by the end of his life, Jefferson did not appear to subscribe to all points of the historic Christian faith—although there is evidence he did so earlier in his life. Nonetheless, he had a great interest in the teaching of Christ. As …
There are 2 key points that our book, Doubting Thomas, strives to make: 1) Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic (and even at the end of his life, when it was now available again, he publicly attended and financially supported Trinitarian worship services, while privately holding Unitarian beliefs), and 2) He did …
Although outwardly an Episcopalian (even attending on a regular basis when Christ Church opened in Charlottesville in 1819 or 1820 until his death in 1826), Jefferson had privately embraced many key Unitarian views. The following observations are not found in our book, Doubting Thomas, but I bring them up to make the …