K.A Paul meets By Jacob Kamaras

Click photo to download. Caption: Dr. K.A. Paul (left) with Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi. Credit: Courtesy of Global Peace Initiative.

On a rainy day in Huffman, Texas—on the outskirts of Houston, America’s fourth-largest city, yet seemingly in the middle of nowhere—I search for the headquarters of the Global Peace Initiative (GPI). The destination plugged into my iPhone’s navigation app takes me to a cross-bearing building in an otherwise empty grass field. There’s no parking lot, but I slog through the muddy grass to the door. When nobody answers, I get back in the car and continue my search for GPI.
Minutes later, I receive a phone call from GPI’s founder, Dr. Kilari Anand (K.A.) Paul, a man who has been described as “the world’s most popular evangelist” by The New Republic and “the next Billy Graham” by the New York Times. He has also been referred to as a “modern-day Gandhi.” Indeed, Paul tells me, the