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

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

The former president said his background in science – nuclear physics, specifically – led him to question many traditional views of scripture.

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

The young Jimmy Carter was a political nobody the first time he ran for governor of Georgia. That long-shot 1966 effort failed, leaving him wrestling with doubts about his future and his faith. But ...

When Plains Baptist Church voted overwhelmingly in the 1950s to bar Blacks and “racial agitators” from membership, Jimmy ...

The young Jimmy Carter was a political nobody the first time he ran ... “We had a wonderful religious experience,” Carter told the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. “We had 18 ...

That doesn’t mean those others didn’t have good intentions, but for Jimmy Carter it just seemed ... your secular humanism as your religion.” Carter grew up as the son of a deacon in the Southern ...

Lesser known, and particularly relevant for American politics today, is our 39th president’s commitment to the Baptist value of religious liberty. The United States’ most religious president in recent ...

Carter was widely known as a man of faith, with his post-presidency defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher ...

I can tell you without any equivocation that the number one abuse of human rights on Earth, strangely not addressed quite ...