When Plains Baptist Church voted overwhelmingly in the 1950s to bar Blacks and “racial agitators” from membership, Jimmy ...

Baptist leaders are remembering Jimmy Carter as an example of faithfulness, compassion and justice and advocate for religious ...

Carter, an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, is being honored with the pageantry of a ...

Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for the pioneering Southern rock band, said its members saw their fellow Georgian as an honest, ...

Carter was widely known as a man of faith, with his post-presidency defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher building homes for low-income people.

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

As the world pays homage to former President Jimmy Carter, some people overlook a primary source of inspiration for his ...

Jimmy Carter, a progressive Baptist, balanced faith with politics, advocating for church-state separation while evolving on ...

Lesser known, and particularly relevant for American politics today, is our 39th president’s commitment to the Baptist value ...

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 ...

In his eulogy, Biden said Carter’s faith overlapped with broadly held American ideals such as the idea that ‘we all are ...

The service, which lasted roughly two hours, was packed with heartfelt and vivid remembrances that recalled both a powerful ...