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, a lifelong Baptist, left a legacy of faithfulness ...
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 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: A progressive Baptist in the Bible Belt
Jan 11, 2025 · Eventually, Carter would cut his ties to the Southern Baptist Convention, openly rejecting its increasingly conservative stands on moral and cultural issues. For the Baptist left, his...
The Evangelicalism of Jimmy Carter - Christianity Today
Oct 1, 2024 · Carter eventually left the Southern Baptist Convention to join the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, a denomination that ordained women and rejected some of the SBC’s conservative political...
How Jimmy Carter tried to ‘save’ Southern Baptists - al.com
Jan 8, 2025 · 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 the Baptist: Carter redefined ‘evangelical,’ from …
Jan 1, 2025 · Carter grew up as the son of a deacon in the Southern Baptist Convention, a conservative denomination founded before the Civil War as a regional splinter group that supported slavery.
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 ...
Did Jimmy Carter Pen the 'Losing My Religion for Equality' Op …
Claim: Jimmy Carter published an open letter entitled "Losing My Religion for Equality."
· Fact checked by snopes.comJimmy Carter's faith: A born-again Christian, progressive evangelical
Dec 29, 2024 · Fifty-three Christian leaders signed the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern of 1973. Signatories included burgeoning progressive voices, like Sojourners founder Jim Wallis, and...