While in Atlanta for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly, I did something that I had put off too long—a visit to the Carter Presidential Museum and Center. President Jimmy Carter has long been a hero of mine, so I am not sure why it took me so long to do this. The Center is in a beautiful setting. The Museum is an attractive and informative survey of the Carter Presidency, and the complex is also the headquarters for the work that the Carters continue to do around the world in addressing issues of peace, health, and poverty. Carter was something of a populist but he was, most of all, a progressive Christian, probably the President most formed and driven by the idea that all people have worth, deserve respect, and should be given a hand up when needed. As recounted in Randall Balmer’s Redeemer, his activist Christian perspective was rejected by Christian fundamentalists, even those who had supported his election in 1976. Carter not only talke...
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