President Jimmy Carter: A Moral Compass for Our Times

My wife and I took our daughters to Disney World in 1997, and after doing so took a quick side trip into southern Georgia to visit the Andersonville Stockade where our Civil War ancestor was held in the rebel prison. We realized while there that Plains, Georgia, was only about 20 miles away, and so decided to make that quick trip to the retirement home of former President Jimmy Carter.

We picked up a few small sacks of Carter peanuts and sat in the chairs of the classroom where the former President went to school. We learned that Carter, a fundamentalist Baptist, would be teaching Sunday Schoo...