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, ...

Everything has a way of coming back around,” the former president said. “What seems unstoppable and inevitable never is.” ...

Carter talked openly and often in the 1976 campaign about his evangelical “born again” faith, ignoring those who advised him to downplay his beliefs.

Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn visited a Habitat For Humanity community in Fairfield, Ala., Friday October 8 ...

An unpopular president, then a respected philanthropist and peacemaker, Jimmy Carter will be remembered as a pious man whose ...

Jimmy Carter was riding high in the 1976 presidential campaign. Then he told Playboy magazine he'd “committed adultery in my heart many times.” ...

His postpresidential greatness is what will be remembered. But he was a shrewder politician than people realize.

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained ...

A number of central Ohioans who worked and campaigned for former President Jimmy Carter have fond memories of him.

Former President Jimmy Carter, a distinguished Naval officer ... when he announced he was severing his ties with the Southern Baptist Convention. In an editorial published in The Observer, Carter ...