Carter warned the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship not to be overconfident about breaking away from, at the time, the 15-million-member Southern Baptist Convention.

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 was one of the most explicitly religious presidents, but his rise in politics came during a transformative era in American Christianity.

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

Jim Lutzweiler had traveled to Plains, Ga., to find the grave of Jimmy Carter’s colorful brother, Billy, whose shenanigans he had followed, and came across the epitaph for the former president ...

PLAINS, Ga. — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at ...

President Jimmy Carter left the White House long before PolitiFact invented its Truth-O-Meter. However, out of office, Carter regularly opined on politics and human rights — prompting multiple ...

Jimmy the Baptist: Carter Redefined ‘Evangelical,’ From Campaigns to Race and Women’s Rights PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel ...

PLAINS, Ga. — (AP) — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations ...