Jimmy Carter publishes study Bible, discusses faith-filled life

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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/17/publishing-study-bible-jimmy-carter-opens-up-about-a-faith-filled-life/?hpt=hp_c1

Jimmy Carter publishes study Bible, discusses faith-filled life
By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor

(CNN) – Jimmy Carter, peanut farmer turned president turned globe-trotting humanitarian, now has another line to add to his business card: Bible commentator. Last week Carter published a Lessons from Life Study Bible, with the subtitle Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter.

With many Democrats embracing the language of faith in recent years in an attempt to win back so-called values voters from the Republican column, Carter's intense faith life is a good reminder that hardly all Democrats are new to the pew.

Since he returned to Plains, Georgia, from Washington after losing his re-election bid to Ronald Reagan in 1980, Carter has taught Sunday school at the local Maranatha Baptist Church, “about 685 times so far,” he says.

His notes in the new study Bible pull from years of Sunday school lessons. “Like the disciples, we should not be proud, seek an ascendant position or argue about who’s the greatest among us,” he notes in reflecting on a passage from the Gospel of Mark in which Jesus' followers are debating who among them is the greatest.

In a phone interview from his home in Plains, he said politics is one area in need of redemption, bemoaning the influx of vitriol and money into politics.
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It's good to see Carter still very busy in his life. And he is a far cry from the sanctimonius Santorum in terms of religious beliefs, and its influence on government!

[Botany]

1. Jimmy Carter has a deep sense of decency in the core of his being

For all the right wingers who talk of being a Christian but don't act
as Christians Jimmy "walks the walk." He really is a good man.

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2. A damn decent man.

We have had a long gap between Mr. Carter and Mr. O.

[ellisonz]

3. K & R

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4. Jimmy Carter is a great man, but the Bible is one f@#$ed up book

of Bronze Age mythology.

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5. Please......

...give it a break and stop slamming a persons choice of faith....

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6. Agreed. n/t