The service, which lasted roughly two hours, was packed with heartfelt and vivid remembrances that recalled both a powerful ...

In his eulogy, Biden said Carter’s faith overlapped with broadly held American ideals such as the idea that ‘we all are ...

Reverend Samuel Tolbert served with Jimmy Carter after his days as president, when he worked with religious leaders around ...

Maybe this is a lesson of the Carter administration, that true Christianity often finds itself drawn away from places of ...

Analysis: Carter navigated the barbed wire of the politics of religion, Eric Garcia reports. In doing so, he ran his race and he kept his faith ...

Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for the pioneering Southern rock band, said its members saw their fellow Georgian as an honest, ...

When Plains Baptist Church voted overwhelmingly in the 1950s to bar Blacks and “racial agitators” from membership, Jimmy Carter and a handful of his family members were the only ones opposed to the ...

Carter was widely known as a man of faith, with his post-presidency defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher building homes for low-income people.

The United States flag flies at half-staff in Washington as I write these words in Albuquerque, where an overcast sky drapes over the land like a pall.

Mr. Carter said his spiritual rebirth was an “evolutionary thing” rather than “a flash of light or a sudden vision of God ...

When Plains Baptist Church voted overwhelmingly in the 1950s to bar Blacks and “racial agitators” from membership, Jimmy ...

Truth is, the former president was part of two endangered groups — populist Southern Democrats and progressive Southern Baptists. In 1976, he fared well with evangelical voters, for a Democrat, but ...