For this July 4 holiday, we’re rebroadcasting our conversation with former President Jimmy Carter from March of 2018.

Religion has been part of his life since he was a child, but his faith was tested most recently in 2015, when he announced he’d been diagnosed with cancer. Today he’s 93 and on a mission to get people to examine their own relationships with faith.

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