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

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 building homes for low-income people.

Jimmy Carter was an evangelical. A liberal evangelical. A liberal evangelical in the age before the Christian Right supported ...

Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn visited a Habitat For Humanity community in Fairfield, Ala., Friday October 8, 2010 to help put the finishing touches on the home of Ted and Wanda ...

Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, spent his life intertwined with America’s and the world’s enduring legacy ...

Truth is, the former president 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 ...

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

Plains, Georgia is preparing to bid farewell to a beloved resident, Jimmy Carter. His longtime church, Maranatha Baptist, is ...

Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100. His Sunday school class still exists today as an ongoing family tradition in Plains. His niece, Kim Carter Fuller, now teaches the same class at ...

President Joe Biden declared January 9th a national day of mourning for former President Jimmy Carter, prompting some closures. Federal offices, including the U.S. Postal Service, will be closed ...

The death of former President Jimmy Carter on Dec. 29 prompted memories of residents who interacted with him during his term ...