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

Jimmy Carter did not shy away from his faith, and he was genuine about it. His religious beliefs guided him during and after his presidency.

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

Everything has a way of coming back around,” the former president said. “What seems unstoppable and inevitable never is.” ...

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 wanted to make sure that his pastor knew they ... Guthas stands out as a woman leading a Baptist church in the South. Maranatha is not a Southern Baptist Convention congregation. In his ...

His postpresidential greatness is what will be remembered. But he was a shrewder politician than people realize.

Jimmy Carter was riding high in the 1976 presidential campaign. Then he told Playboy magazine he'd “committed adultery in my ...

Like many, my first remembered awareness of Jimmy Carter was when, as Governor of Georgia, he announced his bid for the ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, a distinguished Naval officer ... when he announced he was severing his ties with the Southern Baptist Convention. In an editorial published in The Observer, Carter ...