On January 31, 2009, I had the honor of introducing former President Jimmy Carter before he spoke at the Southeast Regional Gathering of the New Baptist Covenant at 16th Street Baptist Church m ...

I can tell you without any equivocation that the number one abuse of human rights on Earth, strangely not addressed quite ...

The United States flag flies at half-staff in Washington as I write these words in Albuquerque, where an overcast sky drapes over the land like a pall.

Mr. Carter said his spiritual rebirth was an “evolutionary thing” rather than “a flash of light or a sudden vision of God ...

Rev. Tony Lowden will read a prayer Thursday in Washington and then preside over the private, final service for President Jimmy Carter in Plains.

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

Follow live updates and coverage of the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter, including service details, attendees and key moments.

Jimmy Carter professing his “born again” Christianity paved the way for Jerry Falwell and Ronald Reagan's style of religious ...

Truth is, the former president was part of two endangered groups — populist Southern Democrats and progressive Southern Baptists. In 1976, he fared well with evangelical voters, for a Democrat, but ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100, has been a landmark figure in Southern Baptist politics ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at 100, was born, raised and died in Georgia, but he had a special place in ...

Jimmy Carter was an evangelical. A liberal evangelical. A liberal evangelical in the age before the Christian Right supported ...