Sen. Raphael Warnock

U.S. Senator | Georgia

Episode 1 Guest | Sen. Raphael Warnock
U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock joins President Walton on Expanding the Table to discuss how his identity as a pastor shapes his work in the Senate — and why American politics desperately needs a moral imagination.

In this episode, Senator Warnock reflects on his new book, “The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America,” drawn from his longtime sermon inspired by Isaiah 40. He breaks down the moral stakes behind the issues affecting everyday Americans: voting rights and voter suppression, healthcare access, mass incarceration, gun violence, Climate change, and more.

A history-maker, Warnock is the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of Georgia and only the second African American to represent a southern state in the Senate since Reconstruction. For the past two decades, he has also served as senior pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, in Atlanta, Georgia — the youngest person to ever hold that role at the spiritual home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.