Abraham Lincoln: Wishing I Was More Devout: Lincoln's Faith from Skepticism to Providence

Abraham Lincoln never joined a church. He mocked revivalists in his youth, read Thomas Paine alongside the Psalms, and spent years deflecting questions about his beliefs with wit and careful silence. Yet the man who doubted so honestly would go on to write the most theologically profound speeches ever delivered by an American president — words that still echo from memorial walls and pulpits more than a century and a half after his death.
Wishing I Was More Devout traces the full arc of Linco...