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 ...

since the first political division took place in the Southern Baptist Convention, I have maintained that relationship. I feel I can no longer in good conscience do that,” Carter was quoted as ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his inaugural address in January 1977, President Jimmy ... Carter, whom Balmer describes as a progressive evangelical, found himself increasingly at odds with the Southern Baptist Conference ...

to find the grave of Jimmy Carter’s colorful brother ... Carter was planning to leave the Southern Baptist Convention because the organization didn’t recognize women as pastors of churches.

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 ...