The First of Two Lazarus: Lazarus of Bethany

The Key Points of Lazarus of Bethany: is based on the tenets that Racism is ugly and that Young men and Women of Color are being buried within a legal system which sees them as worthless. A prison industrial complex which sees their worth as tools of economic development and wealth. Lastly Communities which see them as a nuisance, troublesome, with no redemtive value. They are being locked away in tombs of concert, steel and barbwire, given setences which steal away their youth and hope for building a successful life.

Lazarus seeks to roll away the grave stones which masks their cries, hides them from the public's sight and conscience, and keeps them silent thru security and soliltary confinement practices which are barbaric at best.

Lazarus in the Bible story was bound with grave clothes, four days in the grave, which in Judical law represents a time when it is impossible to resurrect a body, because the soul has departed and return to the Father. Lazarus believes that however long a person has been incarcerated, and no matter what grave clothes were used to bind them, that releasing them to a life of hope and reconciliation. And that unbinding them from the social and pyshological grave clothes can help them regain their lives, and help rebuld their communities and families.