How Jimmy Carter tried to ‘save’ Southern Baptists, his beloved childhood denomination
Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100, has been a landmark figure in Southern Baptist politics ...
Jimmy the Baptist: Carter redefined ‘evangelical,’ from campaigns to race and women’s rights
Former President Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive ...
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Two notable interviews may help Southern Baptists reflect on Jimmy Carter
When Plains Baptist Church voted overwhelmingly in the 1950s to bar Blacks and “racial agitators” from membership, Jimmy ...
How Jimmy Carter helped the religious right’s rise to power
Devoutness wasn't always an important feature in a presidential candidate. That all changed after Carter professed his “born ...
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Don’t Call Him Evangelical — How to Remember Jimmy Carter’s Faith, And How Not To
Jimmy Carter was an evangelical. A liberal evangelical. A liberal evangelical in the age before the Christian Right supported ...
Jimmy Carter fondly recalled childhood visits to Birmingham
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 ...
Peter Johnson: I remember President Jimmy Carter as a quiet, simple, gentle man
Rev. Peter Johnson remembers the quiet, simple and gentle Jimmy Carter, a deeply religious man, committed to the Civil Rights ...
Presidents, Baptists, and women: reviewing fact checks of Jimmy Carter
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’s life intersected with slavery’s legacy. His record on Civil Rights is complicated
Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, spent his life intertwined with America’s and the world’s enduring legacy ...
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'Living Faith': Jimmy Carter, a man of implacable faith, lived his values
The Southern Baptist Convention’s news service ... for pictures with visitors at the little church, a quintessential Jimmy Carter experience. Even as he contemplated his demise, he looked ...
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What President Jimmy Carter helped build in Tennessee, from homes to auto industry
Former President Jimmy Carter was a builder ... closest to home for Money in the early 1990s when Carter threw his support behind the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The new fellowship consisted of ...