In the News
1/1/2025: Washington Post: For Jimmy Carter, faith was inseparable from politics and life
Even in the face of a humiliating defeat, Carter’s religious faith never wavered. Rather, it continued to give him purpose and direction, said Jim Wallis, an evangelical theologian who founded and edited Sojourners magazine and is now the faculty director of the Georgetown University Center on Faith and Justice.
12/30/2024: Jimmy Carter’s Legacy
White evangelicals are now a Republican constituency. But Carter—a Democrat—was the first one in the Oval office. (Podcast)
12/29/2024: Politico: Jimmy Carter: The Last Progressive Evangelical
Carter’s election was also abetted by the brief resurgence in the 1970s of progressive evangelicalism, the particular stripe of the Christian faith that he embodied. Others have tried to keep the tradition alive — people like Jim Wallis and William Barber II and institutions such as Sojourners and the Black church — but progressive evangelicals have never been able to match the media megaphones of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson or Franklin Graham.