On this episode of Our American Stories, Benjamin Franklin rarely attended church and questioned some of Christianity's central doctrines. Yet he never abandoned belief in God. He believed in Providence, immortality, moral accountability, and the importance of religion to a healthy society. Franklin's faith never fit neatly into a single category, and he spent much of his long life thinking, questioning, and occasionally changing his mind about what he believed.

Dr. D. G. Hart, author of Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant, and historian Dr. Thomas Kidd share the complicated story of Franklin's religious life.

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