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 ...

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 ...

The young Jimmy Carter was a political nobody the first ... Carter told the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. “We had 18 people who accepted Christ that week, and we ...

Jimmy Carter told me to stop worrying about ... I was then president of the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention with which Carter had loudly broken in the early 2000s, arguing ...

(RNS) — Amid the many accolades and occasional brickbats now raining down on the late Jimmy Carter ... the moderate progressivism of the Southern Baptist Convention of the 1970s.

President Jimmy Carter has died today ... While he publicly broke from the Southern Baptist Convention following the fundamentalist takeover of the denomination, Carter remained a deacon and ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of ... for the Democratic National Committee in 1974. In 1976, Carter became the first Southern Baptist elected president of the United States, defeating ...

Before Vice President Kamala Harris, the last presidential candidate Jimmy Carter voted ... of sense given that he and Carter both were brought up in the Southern Baptist tradition.