When Plains Baptist Church voted overwhelmingly in the 1950s to bar Blacks and “racial agitators” from membership, Jimmy Carter and a handful of his family members were the only ones opposed to the ...

Baptist leaders are remembering Jimmy Carter as an example of faithfulness, compassion and justice and advocate for religious ...

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

Jimmy Carter's presidency -- and his promise to never tell a lie -- predated PolitiFact's 2007 birth. Nevertheless, we fact-checked several statements the 39th president made after leaving the White ...

(RNS) — When Jimmy Carter ran for president ... Unlike the conservatives who wrested control of the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1980s, he was not a biblical inerrantist.

Truvander Brown Kennedy was only 5 years old when she had a life-changing experience in her Yazoo City hometown.It was July ...

Lesser known, and particularly relevant for American politics today, is our 39th president’s commitment to the Baptist value ...

Lawmakers paid their respects to Jimmy Carter as the former president's casket arrived at the Capitol on Tuesday, with both Republicans and his fellow Democrats remembering the one-term leader as a ...

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.

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 referenced Jesus in an interview ... and leaders from Carter’s own denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. “The 1970s was a high moment in the history of progressive ...

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 ...