Edward L. Beavin Memorial Presentation with Rev. Dr. Bill Hardy

Oct. 24, 7 p.m.

Tapscott Chapel

“Constructing Possibility: Faith, Grammar and Politics”

img_0723Dr. Hardy is a former professor of philosophy and religious studies at Tennessee State University in Nashville. He has taught courses in the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Bible, along with philosophical work in African and African-American philosophy. His areas of research and community service include the future of the African-American experience (particularly the Black church), globalization and linguistics. He is the editor and author of a number of publications and is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Hardy earned a B.A. from Central State University, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University and from Bowling Green State University, an M.Div. from Vanderbilt University and a doctorate in ministry and theology from Drew University. He is the former pastor of the Owensboro A.M.E. Church.