“I'm going to fight every day to make sure the kids growing up in communities like the one I grew up in or rural communities have access to the American Dream because nowhere else - nowhere else on the planet is my story even possible.”

American politician and Baptist minister

Raphael Warnock is an American politician and Mainline Protestant minister in the Baptist tradition. He has served as the junior United States senator from Georgia since 2021 and has been the senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, Warnock is known for combining public office with church leadership. His public profile is shaped by both roles, in government and in the pulpit, and by the moral language that often comes with that work.