Baptist leaders are remembering Jimmy Carter as an example of faithfulness, compassion and justice and advocate for religious ...

On Jan. 20, 1981, after suffering a landslide defeat, former President Jimmy Carter returned home to rural Plains to what he ...

As the world pays homage to former President Jimmy Carter, some people overlook a primary source of inspiration for his ...

Jimmy Carter's presidency -- and his promise to never tell a lie -- predated PolitiFact's 2007 birth. Nevertheless, we fact-checked several statements the 39th president made after leaving the White ...

Jimmy Carter was one of the most explicitly religious presidents, but his rise in politics came during a transformative era ...

Carter was not only the most decent and respectable president of my lifetime. He was the most reverent, realistic, ...

Lesser known, and particularly relevant for American politics today, is our 39th president’s commitment to the Baptist value ...

Jimmy Carter officially announces his candidacy ... He once described feeling shocked when a “high official” in the Southern Baptist Convention told him in the Oval Office that “we are ...

Carter talked openly and often in the 1976 campaign about his evangelical “born again” faith, ignoring those who advised him to downplay his beliefs.

Former US president Jimmy Carter, who rose to the White House as a progressive evangelical outspoken about both Jesus and ...

Lawmakers paid their respects to Jimmy Carter as the former president's casket arrived at the Capitol on Tuesday, with both Republicans and his fellow Democrats remembering the one-term leader as a ...