While most Americans connect Thomas Jefferson with the Declaration of Independence, we are vaguely aware he had some help composing this historic document. Pauline Maier’s exhaustive research for ...

Thanks for joining us on this Independence Day weekend when vacations, barbeques, fireworks, beer-drinking, and hot-dog-eating contests take precedence over reading about God in the Declaration of ...

The Declaration was the defining statement of the American idea—the “why” of America. We would be founded not on race, ethnicity, or class, but on an idea—the Biblical idea that all men are created ...

Donald Trump tried to invoke the Bible when announcing his foster-care executive order. Paraphrasing the scripture, the ...

The Fourth of July is an opportune occasion to reflect on the memorable phrases of the struggle for independence such as “Give me liberty or give me death,” “No taxation without representation,” and ...

A full page ad in Sunday’s New York Times, signed by 21 religious figures, was styled as a “Declaration of Dependence Upon God and His Holy Bible.” Sen. Jason Rapert, who’s gone full-time into the ...

A Wisconsin-based organization of atheists and agnostics is taking a Pennsylvania state House’s declaration to make 2012 the “Year of the Bible” to court, saying it violates the constitutionally ...

Why all the dislike of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (“Preserve and protect U.S. Constitution from all enemies,” Web, July 23)? Just think, without that creator-endowed “Life,” told of in the ...

Special interest groups are trying to keep a ban on books in Oklahoma, but not the ones you’re probably thinking of. These books are thousands of years old, were taught in American schools from the ...

To this list of intellectual influences, one must add the Bible — both the Hebraic and Christian biblical traditions. As the eminent scholar Martin E. Marty (a native of West Point, Nebraska) remarked ...