Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“When Lincoln was running for the House of Representatives from Illinois, he was charged with being “a scoffer at religion,” wrote the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“It is error alone that needs the support of government.2 Truth can stand by itself. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, on freedom of religion” — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“At every significant point in the four centuries since English settlers laid the foundations for the nation we know—at every significant point—American… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“I hate polemical politics and polemical divinity,” said John Adams. “My religion is founded on the love of God and my neighbor;… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“his other hand. Sensitive to his guest’s affliction, Churchill realized that “every step” was” — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“When Lincoln was running for the House of Representatives from Illinois, he was charged with being “a scoffer at religion,” wrote the historian William… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch’d with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treason, Stratagems, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“There was, of course, a more immediate point to frequent gatherings of lawmakers, diplomats, and cabinet officers at the president’s table. It tends to… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
