I'm Gris to tip it. Today, former president Nobel Laureate and Global Humanitarian

Jimmy Carter reflects on public life and the Bible, politics, and love.

What I look around for a metaphor of the relationship between nations or societies or individuals,

the most obviously comprehensible relationship is between a husband and a wife that on a daily basis,

maybe on an hourly basis on occasion, there's going to be a difference of opinion between

people that are forced to live intimately. As in generic terms, we're forced to live intimately

with the people in Africa. And you're involved with them permanently and inseparably, so you have to

learn to accommodate the idiosyncrasies or from a personal point of view that falls in mistakes

of another person and to do it without ceasing. Jimmy Carter speaks of his born-again faith with a

directness striking even in today's political culture. This is speaking of faith, stay with us.

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and public life with Jimmy Carter, former president and Nobel Laureate, author and global activist.

Carter speaks of his born-again faith with a directness that is striking even in today's political

culture. Hear his reflections this hour about being commander in chief while following as he says

the Prince of Peace, about upholding the law of the land while privately opposing abortion,

and about his marriage of 60 years as a metaphor for the challenge of human relationship

both personal and global. From American public media, this is speaking of faith,

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Today, the private faith of Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter was the first evangelical Christian president in modern memory

in a period in which evangelical Christianity was mobilizing in a new way,

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