Magazine Editorial

I TOOK DRUGS TO A CHURCH CONFERENCE. THEN GOD FOUND ME.

I was born to religious, hard-working parents in 1990 in Cairo. At 40 days old, I was baptized by triple immersion like every good Coptic Orthodox Christian. Growing up in this kind of religious atmosphere leaves its mark on your soul forever. I can still recall the routine—but much-dreaded—confession times with the priest. Those experiences […]

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THE BLACK CHURCH IS ATLANTA’S ORIGINAL COMMUNITY ORGANIZER

As pastor of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, Raphael Warnock said he never felt the pressure to fill the shoes of his famous predecessor, Martin Luther King Jr. But he does “stand on his shoulders.” Warnock is the fifth and youngest inhabitant of the pulpit of the 134-year-old church, both a National Historic Site and

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