How Jimmy Carter tried to ‘save’ Southern Baptists - al.com
1 day ago · 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 - ABC News
Oct 20, 2000 · In an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published today, Carter says Southern Baptist leaders reading the Bible out of context led to the adoption of increasingly “rigid” views.
Jimmy Carter Was the First ‘Born Again’ U.S. President
15 hours ago · And in 1990, he distanced himself from the Southern Baptist Convention over the denomination’s approach to women in leadership.. But Christian faith remained a defining theme for Mr. Carter, who ...
Two notable interviews may help Southern Baptists reflect on Jimmy Carter
3 days ago · Carter’s church in 1991 and until his death was Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, which formed during his presidency by breaking from Plains Baptist Church, Carter’s boyhood congregation. Today, Plains Baptist is a Southern Baptist congregation in good standing, professing the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 as its statement of faith.
Jimmy Carter held the highest office in the land. But his faith …
8 hours ago · In 2009, he left the Southern Baptist Convention because of its views on gender. When he ran for governor in 1970, he winked and nodded to segregationists only to say in his 1971 inaugural, “the ...
Jimmy Carter, a lifelong Baptist, left a legacy of faithfulness ...
Dec 30, 2024 · As an active and visible Baptist layman, Carter developed a decades-long friendship with Jimmy Allen, president of the Southern Baptist Convention in the late 1970s. Together, they dreamed up what came to be known as Bold Mission Thrust, the SBC’s ambitious program to spread the Christian gospel around the world by the year 2000.
Jimmy Carter's faith: A born-again Christian, progressive evangelical
Dec 29, 2024 · Signatories included burgeoning progressive voices, like Sojourners founder Jim Wallis, and leaders from Carter’s own denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. “The 1970s was a high...
Former President Carter Leaves Southern Baptist Convention
On October 28, 2000, The New York Times reported that "a week ago, former President Jimmy Carter made the unexpected announcement that he was severing his lifelong ties to the Southern Baptist Convention. He would remain active in his church in Plains, Ga., he said, but he would no longer consider himself a member of the denomination itself ...
Jimmy Carter's essay on quitting church is suddenly viral
May 1, 2015 · His determination to promote the rights of women led him in 2000 to sever ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, over its rejection of women in leadership. He explained his...
Jimmy Carter on Leaving the Southern Baptist Convention - Video - Oprah.com
Sep 27, 2015 · President Jimmy Carter says he was very active in the Southern Baptist Convention, one of the largest Baptist denominations in the world, until they adopted a stance on women that didn't match his Christian beliefs.