Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College ... But his electoral defeat in 1980, at the ...

Carter was the first in the conservative line of presidents more commonly associated with Ronald Reagan. Carter’s ... Kennedy saw his Catholic religion as more liability than asset, and neither ...

Jimmy Carter and the man he beat for president, Gerald Ford, got so tight after office that their friendship became a kind of ...

Jimmy Carter's religion played a key role in his presidency from 1977 to 1981. He embraced this strain of Christianity.

President Ronald Reagan warned, “If we ever forget that ... Those who don’t identify with any religion (the “nones”) rose from 13% in 2010 to 21% today. Is it so surprising then that ...

I am a Southerner and an American, I am a farmer, an engineer, a father and husband, a Christian, a politician and former ...

Jimmy Carter, who died last week, was a lifelong Christian and often referenced his faith in key political moments ...

Indeed, Carter set a new precedent for presidential aspirants: Since Carter, Christian voters have expected candidates to talk openly about their religion ... the way Republican presidents have since ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who aspired for a "competent and compassionate" government, has died. He was 100.

As a nation mourns its 39th president, we asked biographers, political scientists, journalists and others: What’s the first ...

Carter died Sunday at age 100 and as the nation reflects on his legacy and specifically that of his religion ... that they were,” Butler said. Ronald Reagan, however, was and Reagan’s eventual ...

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