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 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.

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.

Like many, my first remembered awareness of Jimmy Carter was when, as Governor of Georgia, he announced his bid for the ...

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