At Thursday’s state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter, speaker after speaker referenced the humble Georgia peanut farmer’s commitment to God.

Truth is, Carter 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 exit polls ...

Maybe this is a lesson of the Carter administration, that true Christianity often finds itself drawn away from places of ...

Analysis: Carter navigated the barbed wire of the politics of religion, Eric Garcia reports. In doing so, he ran his race and he kept his faith ...

Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for the pioneering Southern rock band, said its members saw their fellow Georgian as an honest, ...

When Plains Baptist Church voted overwhelmingly in the 1950s to bar Blacks and “racial agitators” from membership, Jimmy Carter and a handful of his family members were the only ones opposed to the ...

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.

When Plains Baptist Church voted overwhelmingly in the 1950s to bar Blacks and “racial agitators” from membership, Jimmy ...

Carter was widely known as a man of faith, with his post-presidency defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher ...

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

By Sid Salter Columnist Native Mississippian Wilson Golden is a proud “yellow dog” Democrat. A Marshall County product with ...