Tag: John Adams

Justice Will Sellers: Adams and Jefferson, a friendship forged in independence

That Adams and Jefferson should die on July 4, 1826, a half-century after the Declaration's adoption, seems almost too fitting to be true. The two men who helped define American independence left the world together on the anniversary of the nation's birth they helped midwife.

Col. John Eidsmoe: Was John Adams a friend or foe of Christianity?

But when we ask whether the Declaration of Independence was a biblical document, what matters is not what men like Adams believed in 1820, but what they believed in 1776 and 1787.

Jim Zeigler: Founder John Adams believed Independence would be celebrated each July 2 with sermons and thankfulness

Founding Father John Adams predicted Independence would be celebrated each year on July 2 with sermons and acts of devotion to God.