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sorry but this one is not real

This is one of favorite least favorite things!

Only family heirloom I own is a sturdy wooden chair he apparently stole from a pub.

Another grandchild of Dorchester here. Grandfather on that side was a coal furnace fireman at Domino Sugar.

Chalk cartoon of a judge talking to a ridiculous man in a long red tie. Judge says, “Your crimes are an existential threat to the nation, but as the founders intended, you’re now the boss of everything because we ran out of time.”

Oh well.

From The Archives: Merle Haggard, Son of Bakersfield Note: I wrote a bunch of stuff before posting the actual article. You know, like recipe sites, except I heard some of those guys make money. So just scroll down a thousand words for the actual thing y...

"He was a part of every family gathering and every drive. A man who not only sang about my family, but to my family, without mythologizing or patronizing or getting any of the details wrong. To use my grandma’s phrase, 'he sang my life.'"

kalebhorton.ghost.io/from-the-arc...

From the It Could Be Worse department: I missed a mistake that was quoted in the NYTBR, which then had to publish a correction.

“White church” and “white foodways” are just incredible answers.

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...

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!

Check out a free sample and save 30% with code PUP30 : press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#ThomasJefferson #History

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.