Exonerations and new science continue to raise questions about shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis that lives on under a different name: “abusive head trauma.” Critics say the name deflects scrutiny ...

New Year’s Day Wünschung or “wishing” is an example of what anthropologists call “sympathetic magic.” Its practice is nigh ...

Everything has a way of coming back around,” the former president said. “What seems unstoppable and inevitable never is.” ...

Jimmy Carter was one of the most explicitly religious presidents, but his rise in politics came during a transformative era in American Christianity.

Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, was known most as the 39th president of the United States. But he also will be ...

Politics / Obituary / The Baptist Georgia governor won a majority of evangelical Christian voters in the 1976 presidential ...

Former US president Jimmy Carter, who rose to the White House as a progressive evangelical outspoken about both Jesus and ...

Jimmy Carter shocked those who largely knew him as a devoted husband and Christian when he admitted to feelings of 'lust' and committing 'adultery many times in my heart' in a 1976 Playboy interview.

The former president embodied a strain of Christianity that emphasized caring for those on the margins — but was eclipsed by ...

Lesser known, and particularly relevant for American politics today, is our 39th president’s commitment to the Baptist value ...

One of the many paradoxes surrounding Carter’s presidency is that he was unable to fend off the deception of fellow ...

The Georgia peanut farmer turned politician won Texas’ 26 electoral votes in 1976 but couldn’t repeat the feat four years ...