That doesn’t mean those others didn’t have good intentions, but for Jimmy Carter ... your religion.” Carter grew up as the son of a deacon in the Southern Baptist Convention, a conservative ...

The young Jimmy Carter was a political nobody the first ... Carter told the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. “We had 18 people who accepted Christ that week, and we ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of ... for the Democratic National Committee in 1974. In 1976, Carter became the first Southern Baptist elected president of the United States, defeating ...

(RNS) — In ‘Becoming the Pastor’s Wife,’ Barr argues that the white, evangelical model for pastors’ wives is a product of culture, not Scripture.