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Walk with Him

David Crowder's living among God's people and working on his next verse

by Charles Bethea
He first appeared to me last November at a bar where I’d gone to watch the Falcons–Saints game. As usual, there were spirited drinkers with heavy beards milling around and grown-ups playing Golden Tee. Read More

Stories from Camp

In 1983 forty-four kids attended the first Camp Sunshine—a retreat for children with cancer—in North Georgia. But as the program grew, so did the need for campgrounds accessible to those with special needs.

by Tony Rehagen
In 1993 Camp Twin Lakes opened on 500 wooded acres outside of Rutledge. Today the facility has thirty air-conditioned cabins, a medical lodge, a horse-riding ring, and a pool with a fifty-foot waterslide. Read More

Market Movers

Maybe you’ve been to a fundraiser at their house, one of the poshest in Buckhead. Maybe you’ve seen 
her cheering for the Atlanta Dream, the Women’s NBA team she co-owns. Or maybe you’ve seen him in 
the news. After all, his company just bought the New York Stock Exchange.

by Jesse Lichtenstein
"It sounds preposterous," the New York Times declared. “A businessman from Atlanta blows into New York and walks off with the colonnaded high temple of American capitalism. No more will New York be the master of the New York Stock Exchange.” Read More

Fauxpocalypse

Just south of Macon, there's a disaster waiting to happen

by Tony Rehagen
We live in a world obsessed with its end. The past decade has given us a litany of Revelation-scale misery, or at least the threat of it: 9/11, Katrina, nuclear weapons in the hands of madmen (hello, Kim Jong-un), monster tornadoes, blazing meteors, relentless plagues, hellacious storms. Read More

Must Reads

Atlanta magazine is recognized regionally and nationally for its long-form nonfiction as well as literary essays, columns, and profiles. Here are a few of our favorites.

You Have Thousands of Angels Around You The National Magazine Award–winning story of a young refugee from Burundi who found a home in Atlanta.

The Golden Boy and the Invisible Army The story of a Georgia Tech graduate whose charmed life was cut short by swine flu.

Who Is Kasim Reed? An unprecedented closeup of the man who can't stop trying to fix our city.

The Town That Blew Away A tiny Georgia town weathers a devastating tornado.

In the Shadows Has time finally run out for DragonCon's Ed Kramer?

Spellbinder Unpacking Mitchell Gross's lies.

The Crossing Two lives, one train, and an accident that changed everything.

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