It's Monday, December 30, 2024.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is a special edition of the briefing, a daily analysis of news

and events from a Christian worldview.

Yesterday, former president Jimmy Carter died at age 100.

Formerly, it should be stated, that James Earl Carter

Jr., the 39th President of the United States, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, after a long

illness. And of course, it was after a very eventful life. And furthermore, it was at the end a

life that defied the odds in terms of the fact that more than a year ago,

Jimmy Carter had entered hospice care.

It was announced then that he was expected not to live long.

But, and Jimmy Carter's relatives shared this with the public, the former president really did want to be the first president to reach 100 years of age,

which he did back in October of just this

year in 2004. The man born in Plains, Georgia, in 1924, died a century later where he had been born,

at least in the same small town in Georgia, where he had been born. Between 1924 and

2024, an extremely eventful life.

And as we should remind ourselves, a life that represents so much of world history and American

history during those very crucial decades of his life. You go back to 1924 and America is now

fully on the world stage, most importantly because of the

Allied victory in World War I. The indispensable nature of the United States and its military to the

successful conclusion of that event. Now, just remember, that war was called the war to end all wars.

How's that for a form of hubris that is disguised as optimism?

But going back to 1924, America is being transformed. And it's also interesting that as Jimmy Carter

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