Carter declared that he was no longer a Southern Baptist and threw his support behind a competing movement of moderates.

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 ...