Jimmy Carter’s death marks both the passing of a peacemaker and the demise of a distinguished strain of religious life in America: progressive evangelicalism. This tradition, with roots in the Second ...

PLAINS, Ga. – Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at Camp David ...

Editor’s Note: A version of this story published last year after President Carter entered hospice care. Long before he was called a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a humanitarian and the 39th president of ...

In November 1973, a group of evangelicals met at the YMCA on Wabash Avenue and adopted the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern. Echoing the themes of progressive evangelicalism from ...

Jimmy Carter referenced Jesus in an interview with Playboy magazine and it cost the Democratic presidential nominee more than he could fathom in the moment. “I’ve committed adultery in my heart many ...

I first met Jimmy Carter at a small gathering prior to an academic conference at Emory University. What he wanted to talk about was what he characterized as the “unsurpassed joy” of telling others ...

When the Rev. Lee Scott publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president during the Evangelicals for Harris Zoom call on Aug. 14, the Presbyterian pastor and farmer said he was taking a risk. “The easy ...

Donald Trump’s administration is giving churches a green light to explicitly endorse political candidates, without fear of losing their nonprofit tax status, under a proposed court settlement. And a ...