ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter gave his last Sunday school lesson several years ago, but Jan Williams still fields emails and calls from people who want to hear the 39th president teach the Word. For years, ...

(RNS) — Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday (Dec. 29) at age 100, was known most as the 39th president of the United States. But he also will be remembered as the world’s most famous Sunday school teacher.

Growing up, I hated going to Sunday school. My parents waking me up too early on a weekend to attend a class that gave no report card and put me right back to sleep? No thanks. As an adult, I shunned ...

Much of my upbringing took place in Sunday school rooms. We spent a lot of time at church when I was growing up in the 1970s and ’80s. I was baptized in one United Church of Christ congregation, ...