Lamar Hardwick

Feb 20, 2024 | redletterchristians.org | Lamar Hardwick

On September 12, 2001, I had an encounter with police that could have ended far worse than it did. The tension was high that day. Terrorists had attacked our country twenty-four hours earlier. I was a junior manager for a large retail company, and I had just finished up the evening by closing the store. With the night crew inside stocking shelves, I followed protocol by driving my car around the building to be sure that it was secure.

Feb 14, 2024 | outreachmagazine.com | Lamar Hardwick

In 1974, Larry and Sandi Zobrest gave birth to their first child, Jim, while living in Erie, Pennsylvania. Jim was diagnosed as profoundly deaf after a routine medical examination before his first birthday.

Feb 14, 2024 | outreachmagazine.com | Lamar Hardwick

How Ableism Fuels RacismBrazos Press, 2024By Lamar HardwickWHO: Lamar Hardwick, lead pastor of Tri-Cities Church in Atlanta. HE SAYS: “How do we dismantle the image of able-bodiedness equals goodness and that Black bodies are inherently bad?”THE BIG IDEA: We need to understand the connection between ableism and racism to get rid of both attitudes and practices in the church.

Dec 7, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Sharon Brous |Shai Held |Lamar Hardwick |Christian Wiman

Marcus Anthony Hunter. Amistad, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-063-00472-6Inspired by the work of W.E.B. DuBois, Derrick Bell, and Octavia Butler, sociologist Hunter (Chocolate Cities) offers an imaginative and exhilarating vision of slavery as “a founding premise of the current human condition,” utilizing this idea as a launch point for his argument that “radical reparations” need to extend beyond the merely financial.

Dec 7, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Shai Held |Lamar Hardwick |Christian Wiman |Jacob Wright

Ruby Lal. Yale Univ, $30 (296p) ISBN 978-0-300-25127-2Historian Lal (Empress) delivers an insightful biography of princess Gulbadan Begum (1523–1603), an adventurer and influential presence at court during the early years of the Mughal empire. Born to Babur, the first Mughal king, Gulbadan’s youth was characterized by travel as her father expanded the empire across South Asia.