The Southern Baptists, already suffering from defections because of the denomination's conservative positions, have lost one of their best-known members: former president Jimmy Carter. Mr. Carter ...

Former President Jimmy Carter severed his lifelong ties with the Southern Baptist Convention with an anguished rebuke on Friday of the denomination’s “increasingly rigid” conservatism ...

In 2000, after decades as America's most famous Sunday school teacher, Jimmy Carter decided to cut the symbolic ties binding him to the Southern Baptist Convention. The former president remained ...

Eventually, Carter would cut his ties to the Southern Baptist Convention, openly rejecting its increasingly conservative stands on moral and cultural issues. For the Baptist left, his message was ...

Jim Lutzweiler has 73 letters and memos Jimmy Carter wrote him. Their friendship started with an essay he wrote that he sent to Carter about Carter's talk of leaving the Southern Baptist Convention.

The Southern Baptist Convention voted "that women were inferior and had to be subservient to their husbands." In a 2013 interview with Time Magazine, Carter explained why he left the Southern ...

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 ...

ATLANTA -- Led by former president Jimmy Carter, thousands of moderate and liberal Baptists prayed and held hands across a massive exhibit hall Wednesday, trying to overcome racial and theological ...

According to Jimmy Carter, when a delegation of SBC officials visited him at the White House shortly after the takeover, Bailey Smith, a pastor from Oklahoma, informed the Southern Baptist Sunday ...

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 ...

Carter disaffiliated from Southern Baptists two decades later, at the age of 76, because the denomination’s leadership, he said, demeaned women as subservient to men in the home, church and ...

Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown on Aug. 23, 2015, in Plains, Ga. Credit: AP/David Goldman By The Associated Press Updated ...