Maranatha Baptist Church deacon Zac Steele saw it up ... That, plus his unabashed embrace of the label, “born-again Christian,” helped him win primary elections in states with large ...

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

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

Carter declared that he was no longer a Southern Baptist and threw his support behind a competing movement of moderates.

Jimmy Carter professing his “born again” Christianity paved the way for Jerry Falwell and Ronald Reagan's style of religious ...

Jimmy Carter did not shy away from his faith, and he was genuine about it. His religious beliefs guided him during and after ...

During the Democratic primaries that year, Carter mentioned to some journalists that he was an evangelical and a “born again ... churches across the country to mobilize conservative Christians ...

Carter talked openly and often in the 1976 campaign about his evangelical “born again” faith, ignoring those who advised him to downplay his beliefs.

He described himself as a born-again Christian and taught Sunday school at the Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, GA. His former pastor there, Rev. Dr. Jeremy Shoulta, joins host ...

As a candidate in 1976, Carter described himself as a “born-again Christian.” Based on the New Testament ... U.S.