Thomas Jefferson was frustrated ... Early Christians, overly eager to make their religion appealing to the pagans, had obscured the words of Jesus with the philosophy of the ancient Greeks ...

Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, was deeply interested in religion—but was he actually a Christian? While he admired Jesus' teachings, he rejected miracles ...

Thomas Jefferson believed that his version of the ... is “scripture by subtraction,” writes Stephen Prothero, a professor of religion at Boston University. The first time Jefferson undertook ...

America's third President Thomas Jefferson. / Ph ... the author stressed that Jefferson treated Muslim leaders and their ...

As a student of religion in public life ... who insist that it is “ridiculous even to consider the notion that Thomas Jefferson could ever have been under the positive influence of an ...

In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson responded to a group of Connecticut merchants who objected to his appointment of a new collector of customs duties — the equivalent of tariffs. The prior hol ...

Thomas Jefferson loved vanilla ice cream. Few did as much as Jefferson to popularize it in the United States. So great was his love for the dessert that his recipe for it is the first known one ...

The two rows of oaks accent the north-south axis formed by Blow Hall and Barrett Hall, intersecting the east-west "quadrangle" of the Sunken Garden. The statue of Thomas Jefferson is a gift from the ...