By Ruth Graham Jimmy Carter was the first American president to describe himself as “born again,” now a somewhat quaint term for experiencing a rebirth through a personal relationship with ...
Carter was one of the most explicitly religious presidents, but his rise in politics came during a transformative era in American Christianity.
Maybe we don’t have the massive audience of a Jimmy Carter, but we can make a difference all the days of our lives if that is ...
Into this milieu, candidate Jimmy Carter announced that he was a "born-again Christian" (a concept that many American moderns were learning of, no doubt, for the first time). Affable and honest ...
At a campaign event in Winston-Salem on the eve of the 1976 North Carolina Democratic primary, a voter asked then-candidate Jimmy Carter whether he was a “born again” Christian. Carter ...
Carter talked openly and often in the 1976 campaign about his evangelical “born again” faith, ignoring those who advised him to downplay his beliefs.
MLK's daughter spoke to Newsweek about the different trajectories of two Georgia natives, and how they aligned in the fight ...
Jimmy Carter referenced Jesus in an interview with ... That, plus his unabashed embrace of the label “born-again Christian,” helped him win primary elections in states with large evangelical ...
Jimmy Carter referenced Jesus in an interview with ... That, plus his unabashed embrace of the label, “born-again Christian,” helped him win primary elections in states with large evangelical ...