Jimmy Carter was one of the most explicitly religious presidents, but his rise in politics came during a transformative era ...

Throughout his remarkable post-presidency, however, Carter enlarged the sphere of his progressive activism — pursuing peace, ensuring democratic elections, eradicating tropical diseases — beyond the ...

The former president embodied a strain of Christianity that emphasized caring for those on the margins — but was eclipsed by the Religious Right.

I’d taken a chance on this evangelical university because it had a Quaker connection, and I hoped the egalitarian Quaker impulse would neutralize the patriarchal and sexist aspects that thread through ...

Not perfectly, of course; none of us is perfect. His policies were remarkably consistent with those articulated by the 1973 ...

George Washington University religious scholar Christopher Rollston says: "There's a strong sense within evangelicalism that the Jewish people are God's people. "And there's a theological ...