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 ...

(RNS) — Amid the many accolades and occasional brickbats now raining down on the late Jimmy Carter ... the moderate progressivism of the Southern Baptist Convention of the 1970s.

Jimmy Carter was a practicing Christian throughout ... Carter was the son of a deacon in the Southern Baptist Convention, a conservative denomination founded before the Civil War as a regional ...

Before Vice President Kamala Harris, the last presidential candidate Jimmy Carter voted ... of sense given that he and Carter both were brought up in the Southern Baptist tradition.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who was well-known for his ... of being the first U.S. president to be a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. Months after becoming president, Carter appeared ...