Jimmy Carter Leaves Southern Baptists. By ABC News. October 20, 2000, ... In June, the group’s leaders voted at its national convention that women should no longer serve as pastors.

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 ...

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 ...

The Southern Baptist Convention voted "that women were inferior and had to be subservient to their husbands." In a 2013 interview with Time Magazine, Carter explained why he left the Southern ...

Jim Lutzweiler has 73 letters and memos Jimmy Carter wrote him. Their friendship started with an essay he wrote that he sent to Carter about Carter's talk of leaving the Southern Baptist Convention.

Carter disaffiliated from Southern Baptists two decades later, at the age of 76, because the denomination’s leadership, he said, demeaned women as subservient to men in the home, church and ...