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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

When Americans recall Jimmy Carter’s legacy ... a future president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), exclaimed at the denomination’s 1976 meeting that America needed a “born-again ...

Jimmy the Baptist: Carter Redefined ‘Evangelical ... He once described feeling shocked when a “high official” in the Southern Baptist Convention told him in the Oval Office that ...