Young black men and the church.

The Christian Century | April 27, 1994 | Copyright

On Easter Sunday and every Sunday morning, it's standing-room-only at Atlanta's Antioch Baptist Church. When it seems impossible that another person can be squeezed into this immaculate new structure located in one of Atlanta's poorest neighborhoods, its pastor, Cameron Alexander, invites the young men in the pews to give up their seats to the standees and take a place on the steps of the sanctuary.

This gathering of young men, who assemble around a pulpit carved in the shape of an open Bible, has become a part of the Sunday ritual at Antioch Baptist where the ...

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