Jimmy Carter Leaves Southern Baptists. By ABC News. October 20, 2000, ... In June, the group’s leaders voted at its national convention that women should no longer serve as pastors.

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 ...

ATLANTA, Oct. 20 -- Former President Jimmy Carter, the son of a Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher, has disassociated himself from the nation's largest Protestant denomination and criticized ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100, has been a landmark figure in Southern Baptist politics since his 1976 presidential campaign. The nation will continue to honor ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100, has been a landmark figure in Southern Baptist politics since his 1976 presidential campaign. The nation will continue to honor ...

The Southern Baptist Convention, ... Email from Deanna Congileo, spokeswoman, former President Jimmy Carter, June 26, 2013. Southern Baptist Convention, "The Baptist Faith and Message." ...

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 ...

Carter and Clinton were raised as Southern Baptists but have expressed dismay over the SBC's increasingly conservative bent since traditionalists defeated modernists in a struggle for control of ...

Mr. Carter's decision, announced on Thursday in a letter that is being mailed this week to 75,000 Baptists nationwide, comes four months after the Southern Baptist Convention, the country's ...

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 ...