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About Cory Ruth

Cory Ruth is a native of Asbury Park, New Jersey, attended middle school and high school in central Florida and has lived in Georgia for the past 15 years.  He is the second oldest of six children and his son Josiah is nine.  He studied Biblical Studies at Carver Bible College and Theology in Seminary. He was a Hearst Scholar at Oglethorpe University where he studied History and Politics and taught American Conversational Culture in Germany at the Universität Dortmund as a Halle Scholar.  He has published several political articles as the political analyst for a Philadelphia-based think tank and is a regular columnist with the Atlanta Christian Family Magazine.

An ordained minister, Cory has helped plant seven churches.  He is a committed humanitarian having managed an emergency men's shelter that served 50 men, a local food drive that fed hundreds each week and is the founder of H.O.P.E. Helping Our People Emerge, a charitable collaborative that works with churches and small businesses to raise awareness and encourage dialog about issues affecting us at a local level and promote action to address community problems.  Currently H.O.P.E. partners to provide 200 families a week with a week’s supply of food; host community forums and provide inspirational messages and counseling to men in transition. In addition he is a successful business professional who has been entrusted by some of the nation’s most respected corporations to provide strategic consultation and to manage multi-large, complex enterprise wide projects.  He is currently managing information security standards and technical compliance across 44 business units for a fortune 500 firm.