Way back in 2005, I attended the BWA Conference in Birmingham, and one day we arrived to find vast numbers of armed police and sniffer dogs checking out the conference centre... former US President Jimmy Carter was due to be speaking in the evening.

I can't remember the detail of his 'Sunday School lesson', as he described it, which was one of the finest sermons I've ever heard, though I recall it being about unity, diversity and inclusivity, about true Baptistness at a time when the US SBC had left the BWA over (ostensibly at least) ordination of women.  I think the text was from Colossians 2 (that would make sense given what he said) rather than Galatians 3, which I'd expected from his introduction.  It certainly made an impression on me, and I am glad I had the privilege of hearing him.

A man of integrity, who lived out his faith in practical service: faith expressed in deeds is faith fully alive.  May he rest in peace and rise on glory.