Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100, has been a landmark figure in Southern Baptist politics ...

Former President Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive ...

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

Jimmy Carter was an evangelical. A liberal evangelical. A liberal evangelical in the age before the Christian Right supported ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...