Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta

Higher Ground Four Faith Leaders Inspiring Positive Change

What do you get when you take four religious leaders from four different faiths, and put them together in a room to discuss issues?

You don't necessarily get a lot of common ground, but that's not really their objective. They are more interested in higher ground.

Sitting around a table at the downtown office of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Rev. Joseph Roberts, Jr., Rev. Joanna Adams, Rabbi Alvin Sugarman, and Imam Plemon al-Amin, represent more than a century of this city's spiritual leadership and experience known as the higher ground group.

"To hear the variety of very thoughtful responses of what's happening is something that I hope the whole entire metropolitan area can have an opportunity to hear," said Alicia Philipp of the Community Foundation.