Jimmy Carter showed that faith, rather than upending family dinners or getting twisted into campaign weaponry, can bring nations together and stop war.
That’s his true legacy.
Evangelical Christian faith, now identified primarily with conservative Republicans, propelled Carter, a Democrat from Plains, Georgia, to the White House.
Carter defies the current stereotypes because he lived out one of the most devout — and complex — faiths of any public leader I've met or researched as a scholar of religion.
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