Peter Manseau

This question looms for the mainline churches in America which, as far as I can tell, are doing their very best to ignore it.

Would be curious to see data on the number of Americans simply unable to function because their country has lost its goddamn mind.

Choosing to believe this is stealth marketing for an upcoming dystopian streaming series.

He's the best. Glad to know young folk are listening to him!

Unfortunately we are a “we” whether we like it or not.

A favorite. I remember that episode and the one where Howie Mandel visits hell as providing two of the most indelible moments in 1980s television.

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

Proud to be part of this project examining the role religion played on January 6. uncivilreligion.org/home/index

Opinion | It’s 2086. This Is What American History Could Look Like. (Published 2022)

Published this warning about what could happen to the memory of January 6 on the first anniversary of the attack. Never imagined so much of the country would — willfully, foolishly — forget so soon. www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/o...

2026 has a lot to live up to. Can it continue the ten-year streak of every year being the worst year ever?

The Jefferson Bible: A Biography by Peter Manseau. The life and times of a uniquely American testament.

The life and times of a uniquely American testament.

The Jefferson Bible by @petermanseau.bsky.social is now available in #paperback!

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Love a good opening line.

Thanks!

Thomas Jefferson Tried to ‘Fix’ the Bible. He Only Succeeded in Making It Sad. - Christianity Today The third president’s attempts to revise Scripture offer a warning about our own tendency to “edit” the truth.

Finally, @danielsilliman.bsky.social in Christianity Today, with the best opening line of any review I've received:

"I first heard of Thomas Jefferson’s Bible as a warning."

www.christianitytoday.com/2020/12/jeff...

Thomas Jefferson’s Not-So-Peculiar Mind What the third president’s unorthodox cut-and-paste project can teach us about our longings and our politics.

Nicole Penn in @thebulwark.com:

"If there’s one thing that Manseau makes clear about Jefferson’s religious evolution, it’s that America’s third president had little use for mystery."

www.thebulwark.com/p/thomas-jef...

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

James Parker in @theatlantic.com:

"Was Thomas Jefferson an atheist? Plenty of people thought so. Jefferson never identified himself as such, of course... As it turned out, Jefferson attacked only one copy of the Bible: his own."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

What Thomas Jefferson Could Never Understand About Jesus Jefferson revised the Gospels to make Jesus more reasonable, and lost the power of his story.

From the great Vinson Cunningham in the @newyorker.com:

"Jefferson’s Bible ends before the Resurrection, with Jesus crucified by the Roman occupiers, as the Gospels tell us he was. Jefferson’s austere editing turns the killing almost into an afterthought."

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This looks fascinating.

Thanks, Chris!

Yes indeed.

Jefferson created his “own” Bible by cutting and pasting Bible text.

I’ll watch for this book.

Happy to send you a copy!

The Jefferson Bible The life and times of a uniquely American testament

Paperback of my Jefferson Bible book drops next week! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The Jefferson Bible The life and times of a uniquely American testament

Paperback of my Jefferson Bible book drops next week! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

A man in beaver furs being chased across a frozen lake by hundreds in beaver suits.

I was not prepared for its brilliance.

So glad to know I'm not the only person who saw this fever dream.