Mr. President, The Class Is Yours

Between stints as a Sunday School teacher at Plains Baptist Church and Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United States and—on at least 17 Sunday mornings—the leader of Bible study with the Couples Class at the First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C.

For the first time, the 14 known recordings of President Carter's Sunday School lessons are transcribed here and introduced with the historical context of the issues confronting...