Baptist leaders are remembering Jimmy Carter as an example of faithfulness, compassion and justice and advocate for religious ...
When Plains Baptist Church voted overwhelmingly in the 1950s to bar Blacks and “racial agitators” from membership, Jimmy Carter and a handful of his family members were the only ones opposed to the ...
On Jan. 20, 1981, after suffering a landslide defeat, former President Jimmy Carter returned home to rural Plains to what he ...
Jimmy Carter was one of the most explicitly religious presidents, but his rise in politics came during a transformative era ...
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 ...