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, ...

The former president said his background in science – nuclear physics, specifically – led him to question many traditional views of scripture.

The young Jimmy Carter was a political nobody the first time he ran for governor of Georgia. That long-shot 1966 effort failed, leaving him wrestling with doubts about his future and his faith. But ...

Carter became increasingly estranged from many white evangelicals after they largely deserted his candidacy in 1980. After conservatives acquired control of the Southern Baptist Convention ...

Nov. 5, 1980, as election returns show native ... (AP Photo/Joe Holloway, Jr., File) In 2000, Carter severed ties to the Southern Baptist Convention, saying parts of its “increasingly rigid ...

In 1979, Falwell formed the Moral Majority, while Southern Baptist Convention voting delegates ... other prominent Christians in Dallas in early 1980, where the group prayed and determined it ...

Schaller, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Mr. Carter’s wipeout 1980 loss to ... worshipers allied with the Southern Baptist Convention, the powerful ...

He once described feeling shocked when a “high official” in the Southern Baptist Convention told him in ... The Kremlin deposed Gierek in 1980, but that visit became a seminal moment in ...

Carter talked openly and often in the 1976 campaign about his evangelical “born again” faith, ignoring those who advised him to downplay his beliefs.