Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of ...

Carter was widely known as a man of faith, with his post-presidency defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher building homes for low-income people.

June 8, 2014. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) People wait in line outside Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., to get into ...

(AP Photo/Charles W. Harrity, File) Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., on Nov. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/John Amis, File) Former President Jimmy ...

But in 1979, Gierek rebuffed Moscow’s orders by allowing newly elected Pope John Paul II to visit ... his books and expositions and Sunday School lessons, the Baptist from Plains hewed to ...