Jimmy Carter publishes study Bible, discusses faith-filled life

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President Jimmy Carter's speaks at an interfaith service in New York in 1991.

March 17th, 2012
06:45 AM ET

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.

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[Ezlivin]

1. As an atheist...

I think he was the best Christian president we will ever have.

His values seemed genuine and he truly seemed to care for the American public.

I wish we could vote for him again!

[cbayer]

2. Wonderful man. Between him and Bill Moyers, we have some amazing liberal Christian

voices out there.