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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

Former President Jimmy Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive evangelical.

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