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 ...

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.

Carter grew up as the son of a deacon in the Southern Baptist Convention, a conservative denomination founded before the Civil War as a regional splinter group that supported slavery.

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 ...

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 ...