In November 1973, a group of evangelicals adopted the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern, which decried income ...

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

“Today, that has totally reversed.” That divide only widened after Carter’s election that November, and it fueled a fearsome ...

George Barna was recently quoted as suggesting “that pastors would be wise to examine their practices and reputations.” I ...

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

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

Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College, is the author of Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right. Jimmy Carter’s death marks both the passing of ...

That divide only widened after Carter’s election that November, and it fueled a fearsome counterattack to the president’s progressive evangelicalism, even though the two sides shared certain ...