In a rare show of unity in these tumultuous times, every living American president filed into pews together Thursday to honor one of their own at the funeral for President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday.
Carter, who died late last month at 100 years old, is being remembered as a compassionate Christian and ahead-of-his-time progressive, despite having served a single term in the White House that was seen as a disappointment at the time.
Under the stained glass and stone filigree of the soaring neo-Gothic nave, family members and dignitaries recalled private kindnesses and public sacrifices, noting that Carter taught Sunday school at his church in Plains, Georgia, “every Sunday from World War II to Covid.”
