The Ways of Providence: Religion and George Washington
	By Frank E. Grizzard, Jr.
	132 pages, 6 x 9 • Paper $11.95
	ISBN 0-9768238-1-0
	UNCOVERS the first President’s spiritual beliefs, explains how he used them to his political advantage, and explores how they shaped his life and the nation he founded. Washington has always been regarded as a staunch, practicing Christian. As an Episcopalian he was baptized, married and served on the vestry. He was also Godfather to several children. Who would guess that he rarely attended services and never took Holy Communion? Despite using the language of the Deists Washington was one of the most eloquent spokesmen for religious tolerance in America. Explains the path laid by the Father of our Country for his “children.”
	"Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception." --Washington to Lafayette, 1787
	Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. is Director of the Lee Family Digital Archive, an ambitious effort to create an online edition of the papers of the historic Lee Family of Virginia, and former Senior Associate Editor at the Papers of George Washington editorial project at the University of Virginia. A frequent lecturer on George Washington and other historical topics, Mr. Grizzard's other books include George! A Guide to All Things Washington; Jamestown Colony: A Political, Cultural, and Social History (with D. Boyd Smith); John Milton Mackie's The Administration of Washington (ed.); Humor in the Age of Washington (ed.); and The Hobby of My Old Age: Thomas Jefferson and the Construction of the University of Virginia.