“Suffering & Theology in Kendrick Lamar” with Rev. Dr. Alex Sosler

Suffering & Theology in Kendrick Lamar: Grief & Survival Through Hip-Hop In The Spirituals and the Blues, James Cone connects the hopeful power of black church music to “secular spirituals” called the blues. In Cone’s words, both genres are about black survival. In this Theology on Tap lecture, Alex Sosler develops Cone’s thesis from the blues into a theologically-informed read of modern hip-hop…