Session 1: How to Handle Your Here
2025 Hugh C. Benner Preachers' Conference: All God's Children
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58m
Hear Dr. Lamar Hardwick preach on "How to Handle Your Here" from John 17:9-11, 14-15 (NLT) with a Q&A to follow.
Dr. Lamar Hardwick (D.Min.Liberty University) also known as "the autism pastor," is a pastor, cancer survivor, PhD student and award-winning author focused on the intersection of disability, race, and religion.
Hardwick was diagnosed with Autism at the age of thirty-six. He provides workshops and consults with businesses, churches, universities, and faith-based organizations on becoming more disability inclusive. He is a graduate of Candler School of Theology at Emory University, the Clergy Scholar Program at Yale Divinity, and a 2017 graduate of Georgia Forward's Young Game Changers program. He has authored four books including his most recent book, How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church (Brazos Press, 2024).
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