This is the Brian Lairn Show on WNYC. I'm producer Amina Serna filling in for Brian today.

As I'm sure you've been hearing all morning, former President Jimmy Carter died yesterday.

He was 100 years old.

We've been reflecting on his long life for over a year now here on the Brian Laird Show since he went into hospice care.

As I mentioned at the beginning of today's show, Brian was lucky enough to interview Carter several times over the years.

Today, we thought it would be nice to hear an excerpt from an interview he did several times over the years. Today we thought it would be

nice to hear an excerpt from an interview he did with Brian about 10 years ago in March of 2014.

President Carter talked mostly about his work in women's rights as they relate to religion.

You'll also hear him interact with callers and weigh in on the NSA and why he was still a fan of snail mail

at that time. So here is former President Jimmy Carter from 2014. This interview has been lightly edited.

It's the Brian Larrow Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Former President Jimmy Carter has become convinced

that deprivation and abuse of women and girls is the most serious and most unaddressed problem

in the world and results from a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts.

President Carter is here in our studio to talk about that and more, including perhaps why he

sends snail mail, not email, to world leaders, which he said on television the other day.

You can probably guess why.

His new book is a call to action, women, religion, violence, and power.

Mr. President, an honor. welcome to our Varick Street home.

It's good to be with you again, Brian. Thank you.

You and I have spoken about religion before in the context of your faith and your lifetime of teaching the Bible.

So why point to religion now is a prime cause of what you call the most serious problem in the world?

Well, religion and violence of the two generic causes of the abuse of women and girls around the world.

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