In his 32nd book, titled simply “Faith,” Jimmy Carter looks at how belief in God and others has shaped his 93 years.
“To me, ‘faith’ is not just a noun but also a verb,” the former president writes in his latest — and possibly last — book.
Carter talked about his new book with Religion News Service, and why he is scaling back on teaching his popular Sunday school class in Plains, Ga. The 39th U.S. president also explained why, after some consultation, he decided to speak at Liberty University’s commencement this May.
The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Of the 32 books you have written, more than half a dozen have focused on faith. Why did you decide to write one with just that word as its title?
My publishers felt that, with the world situation today, a lot of people have lost faith in basic principles that shouldn’t be ever questioned: faith in democracy, faith in freedom, faith in equality, faith in the integrity of the truth, faith in the idea of education, faith in ourselves, quite often, faith in our fellow human beings.
And those losses of faith I think precipitated my using, you might say, 93 years of experience and trying to provide the answer of what does faith mean to us and how can we apply our existing faith or potential faith, if we don’t have it yet, into answering these questions that face us in our daily life.
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