Dec 29, 2024 · (RNS) — Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday (Dec. 29) at age 100, was known most as the 39th president of the United States. But he also will be remembered as the world’s most famous Sunday...

Jan 22, 2025 · Turnout for Carter’s Sunday school lessons dipped during the Great Recession. But the crowds returned after his cancer announcement, with some folks lining up outside the church the night before. Carter declared himself cancer-free, but other health challenges began to catch up with him.

Jan 4, 2025 · Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown, Aug. 23, 2015, in Plains, Ga. The 90-year-old Carter gave one lesson to about 300 people filling the small Baptist church that he and his wife, Rosalynn, attend.

Harlan’s new book, Mr. President, the Class is Yours, presents transcripts from 14 Sunday school lessons Carter presented to a couples Bible class at the church. Titles range from “Jesus and the Holy Spirt” and “Facing Life’s Tensions” to “One Gospel …

May 8, 2024 · There, we met with Christi Harlan, a veteran reporter whose new book, “Mr. President, The Class Is Yours,” introduces readers to President Jimmy Carter, Sunday School teacher. Three days after his 1977 inauguration, Carter and his wife Rosalynn attended the couples Sunday School class at FBCDC.

Jan 4, 2025 · Here, the former commander-in-chief and the onetime first lady, his wife of more than seven decades, were simply Mr. Jimmy and Ms. Rosalynn. And when it came to worshipping with them, all were...

Jan 3, 2025 · Carter taught his Sunday school class roughly twice a month to accommodate crowds that sometimes swelled to more than 500.

Dec 30, 2024 · (RNS) — Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday (Dec. 29) at age 100, was known most as the 39th president of the United States.But he also will be remembered as the world’s most famous Sunday school teacher. Carter, who spoke openly about his Baptist faith while campaigning for the White House in 1976, earned the votes of many evangelical Christians when he called himself “born again.”

Dec 31, 2024 · Although Carter stopped teaching Sunday school in 2020, due to a combination of pandemic restrictions and his own health issues, his lessons had attracted capacity crowds in the tiny country...

Jan 4, 2025 · FILE - People wait in line outside Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., to get into a Sunday school class taught by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Aug. 23, 2015. It was...