Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 ... Our church is still a member of the Southern Baptist Convention,’’ Carter said at the time. Carter declared his disagreement with and ...

Truth is, Carter was part of two endangered groups — populist Southern Democrats and progressive Southern Baptists. In 1976, ...

to find the grave of Jimmy Carter’s colorful brother ... Carter was planning to leave the Southern Baptist Convention because the organization didn’t recognize women as pastors of churches.

Carter was one of the most explicitly religious presidents, but his rise in politics came during a transformative era in American Christianity.

Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn visited a Habitat For Humanity community in Fairfield, Ala., Friday October 8 ...

Carter talked openly and often in the 1976 campaign about his evangelical “born again” faith, ignoring those who advised him to downplay his beliefs.

Jimmy Carter officially announces his candidacy ... He once described feeling shocked when a “high official” in the Southern Baptist Convention told him in the Oval Office that “we are ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United ... came as a theologically conservative movement within the Southern Baptist Convention gained power and “cracked down on women’s ordination ...

Carter declared that he was no longer a Southern Baptist and threw his support behind a competing movement of moderates.

Jimmy the Baptist: Carter Redefined ‘Evangelical ... He once described feeling shocked when a “high official” in the Southern Baptist Convention told him in the Oval Office that ...

That doesn’t mean those others didn’t have good intentions, but for Jimmy Carter ... your religion.” Carter grew up as the son of a deacon in the Southern Baptist Convention, a conservative ...