The young Jimmy Carter was a political nobody the first ... Carter told the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. “We had 18 people who accepted Christ that week, and we ...

That doesn’t mean those others didn’t have good intentions, but for Jimmy Carter ... your religion.” Carter grew up as the son of a deacon in the Southern Baptist Convention, a conservative ...

President Jimmy Carter has died today ... While he publicly broke from the Southern Baptist Convention following the fundamentalist takeover of the denomination, Carter remained a deacon and ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at 100 ... a publisher of Sunday School material for the Southern Baptist Convention. ‘’Before it was moved to Nashville, it was printed ...

Former President Jimmy Carter was ... in the early 1990s when Carter threw his support behind the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The new fellowship consisted of Southern Baptists who were ...

In his inaugural address in January 1977, President Jimmy ... Carter, whom Balmer describes as a progressive evangelical, found himself increasingly at odds with the Southern Baptist Conference ...

But Carter’s inauguration did mark him out as a new kind of southern politician ... in the community. Jimmy Carter frequently taught Sunday school at Marantha Baptist Church, his classes ...