Pete Buttigieg spent his Sunday at church with Jimmy Carter

Former President Jimmy Carter meets with Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten Buttigieg.
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Former President Jimmy Carter can be found most weekends teaching Sunday School at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, and this Sunday, he was joined by Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten.

Buttigieg is the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Carter said the two met when Buttigieg volunteered at a Habitat for Humanity project in the state. Carter asked Buttigieg to read from the Bible during his lesson, and Buttigieg later tweeted that he was "humbled" to have spent time at church with Carter. "He is a true public servant and America is blessed for his continuing leadership," he said.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.