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

Former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral last week sparked a new debate about a decades-old song.

Truth is, Carter was part of two endangered groups — populist Southern Democrats and progressive Southern Baptists. In 1976, ...

Jimmy Carter was riding high in the 1976 presidential campaign. Then he told Playboy magazine he'd “committed adultery in my ...

Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks performed "Imagine" at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral, which was not taken well by some Christian conservatives on social media.

was Jimmy Carter worth the trouble?” He was, in the mind of Randall Balmer, a Dartmouth College historian of religion and Carter’s rise to the presidency. Balmer points to the violence averted in the ...

As I heard the stories of the late President Jimmy Carter last week, I thought about the churches in my town that President ...

The Baptist deacon responded with an 823-word soliloquy on human imperfection, pride and God’s forgiveness. He said he ...

Authentic. Peacemaker. Humanitarian. These are a few of the words students and professors at the University of Georgia used ...

President Carter practiced his faith clearly and openly — he even taught adult Sunday School while in office! Yet he fully ...

Much of last week was spent eulogizing and laying to rest President Jimmy Carter. Some of us remember when he was elected ...

Jason Carter walks past the casket of his grandfather, former President Jimmy Carter, during a state funeral service at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP ...