The Tennessean's letters reflect the views of the authors and add to public discourse. At issue today: The legacy of ...

The Tennessean's letters reflect the views of the authors and add to public discourse. At issue today: The legacy of ...

Jimmy Carter was an evangelical. A liberal evangelical. A liberal evangelical in the age before the Christian Right supported ...

We welcome diverse viewpoints. Re: "The faith of Jimmy Carter: A born-again Christian who practiced his own version of progressive evangelicalism," Dec. 30. An article in The Tennessean eulogizes ...

For our columnist Sébastien Fath, a notable evolution is taking place within African evangelical churches, marked by unprecedented sovereignist rhetoric resonating with the continent's youth.

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

My father was a hard man. I spent most of my childhood fearing him. He was a product of the American working class who, as he liked to put it, attended the “school of hard knocks.” He served ...

“I am a farmer, an engineer, a businessman, a planner, a scientist, a governor, and a Christian,” Jimmy Carter said while introducing himself to national political reporters when he announced ...

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 ...

Re: “President Jimmy Carter’s ‘progressive evangelicalism’ proves to be problematic,” by Jim Kennedy, Jan. 4 (online) and Jan. 5 (print). Mr. Kennedy lamented the legalizing of the seven ...