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.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 ... Our church is still a member of the Southern Baptist Convention,’’ Carter said at the time. Carter declared his disagreement with and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...