Today, I decided to look at two small books on my Bible shelf: the Jefferson Bible and Lincoln's Devotional.
The Bible was actually a reprint of Jefferson's attempt to make a "Bible" from Jesus's words in the gospels. He began it in 1804 but didn't complete it until 1819.
Lincoln's little book was a devotional from a sect in England in 1852, with a short saying for each day of the year.
Interestingly, just as I was sitting down before lunch, and after I had looked at the two books above, I glanced at one of my Shakespeare shelves. I was going to read a novel from the local library, "If We Were Villians" by M.L. Rio, and it involved college students and Shakespeare and murder, etc. I noticed on the shelf a book by Joseph Pearce titled "The Quest for Shakespeare". When I pulled it off the shelf, expecting it to be about who Shakespeare really was, I was surprised to find it was an argument for showing that he was a Catholic in a very un-Catholic period of time in England!
I am adding this to my Reading List - along with the two small presidential books.
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