Joshua Carter described President Jimmy Carter's legendary devotion to teaching Sunday school in Plains, Georgia, saying that ...

To the relief of Carter’s campaign strategists who worried that a Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher and church deacon might need to tone down his religiosity to win the presidency ...

The article included other remarks related to Carter’s faith – such as the importance of the separation of church and state, a conviction born of Carter’s Southern Baptist upbringing – but ...

Carter, who died Sunday at 100, was widely known as a man of faith, especially after his long post-presidency became defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher building homes for low ...

"I have finally decided that, after 65 years, I can no longer be associated with the Southern Baptist Convention," he wrote. He continued as a deacon and Sunday school teacher. "Our prayer is that ...

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 ...

FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School class at Maranatha Baptist ... shocked when a “high official” in the Southern Baptist Convention told him in the Oval Office that ...

Carter, a Southern Baptist Sunday-school teacher, replied that, yes, he was “born again,” thereby sending a legion of journalists from outside the Bible belt to their Rolodexes to figure out ...