Jimmy Carter, ‘Born-Again’ President, Humanitarian, Dead at 100

Former President Jimmy Carter attends the starting day of the 24th Jimmy Carter Work Project in Los Angeles on October 29, 2007. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni 

“Jimmy Carter’s importance to faith and public life was reintroducing into the public square the principles that animated nineteenth-century evangelicals: concern for the poor, racial equality, peacemaking, human rights and equality for women,” Randall Balmer, professor of religion at Dartmouth told Sojourners. “He did so as an avowed and unapologetic Baptist, which means that he respected the First Amendment and the separation of church and state.”

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