Taken from Church and State Magazine, November issue, published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Over a decade ago on August 9, 2012, Christian publisher Thomas Nelson made an announcement that was unprecedented for that company. The firm decided to pull Christian Nationalist David Barton’s book The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson from publication. The publisher’s representatives said they lost confidence in the book’s facts. Debunking…
Greg Forster is Senior Fellow and Affiliate Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL. He is also the president of the Karam Fellowship. Greg sent along the following endorsement of the second edition of Getting Jefferson Right: Ideologues and demagogues are working harder than ever to control how the story of our history is told. We cannot even speak to each other effectively, much less find common ground, if…
Dr. Paul Harvey endorsed the first edition and after getting a look at the second edition wanted to endorse it again. Getting Jefferson Right is an excellent example of the art of historical contextualization, of trying to tell the whole story, not just part of it. For those reasons, the work should become a standard reference. -Paul Harvey, Professor of History, University of Colorado We want to thank Dr. Harvey for his endorsement and confidence…