As usual, I’m late to a 7 a.m. weekday Mass, and I sneak into the last pew for the Gospel. It’s the one about God knowing ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Jimmy Carter, a long-time member of the Baptist Church, came to understand the deep divide of race ...

But he had exposure to Black evangelical traditions by occasionally visiting St. Mark AME Church, the congregation of the tenant farming families that worked his father’s land. “I could see ...

Raised as an evangelical Baptist ... that women should play an absolutely equal role in service of Christ in the church,” he wrote. The Rev. James Merritt, then president of the SBC, responded ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

The church was founded by Rick Warren, author of the best-selling book “The Purpose Driven Life.” Many evangelical churches cite scriptures such as 1 Timothy 2:12 (“I do not permit a woman ...

The Baptist Georgia governor won a majority of evangelical Christian voters in ... at the Baptist church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, 1976. With the passing of Jimmy Carter on Sunday ...

John B. Anderson, a Republican member of Congress from Illinois, was a member of the Evangelical Free Church, an evangelical denomination with Scandinavian roots, and could also be counted in that ...

The article included other remarks related to Carter’s faith — such as the importance of the separation of church and state ... the same issues animated some evangelical leaders to organize.

Ronald Reagan didn’t go to church—much less teach Sunday school—and yet he solidified white evangelicals, especially southerners, against Carter. That Republican-evangelical alliance has ...

To the relief of Carter’s campaign strategists who worried that a Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher and church deacon might ... Was Carter too evangelical for some of his campaign advisers ...