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

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

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

Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn visited a Habitat For Humanity community in Fairfield, Ala., Friday October 8, 2010 to help put the finishing touches on the home of Ted and Wanda ...

As the world pays homage to former President Jimmy Carter, some people overlook a primary source of inspiration for his ...

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 ...

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

Carter was not only the most decent and respectable president of my lifetime. He was the most reverent, realistic, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...