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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Mary Ellen and her husband Lynne Chamberlin were early supporters and avid organizers for Jimmy Carter in Iowa as he launched ...

Carter talked openly and often in the 1976 campaign about his evangelical “born again” faith, ignoring those who advised him to downplay his beliefs.