Audio by artist deshonna_collier-goobil

Today’s urban church must remain a part of the changing climate of
youth culture. It seems that in more recent times, church leadership is
beginning to look at and utilize Hip Hop in weekly services. They are
looking for more ways to reference Hip Hop in sermon titles and some
churches even have Hip Hop Sundays! In crossing this delicate line
however, we must learn how to navigate the lines of misogyny and
sexism that permeate Hip Hop music videos and lyrics. This workshop
will touch on the following issues:
• How do we deal with controlling images in Hip Hop?
• But sex is what they’re sellin’: The objectification of women in video’s

Learn the theological backdrop of Christ’s ability to transform Hip
Hop culture and teach your young people how to raise the ethic in
their music culture. In today’s world Hip Hop, Goth, Rock, and other
forms of popular education dominate the thinking and subsequent
behavior of our youth. More often than not the church’s response
to this is to demonize popular culture and ridicule youth that
choose to participate in popular culture, failing to see the wonderful
evangelistic opportunities that our youth are placed in. The Hip Hop
culture/community specifically, lacks an ethic. This session will deal
with H. Richard Niebuhr’s classic model of “Christ Transforming