“Oppression” Articles

Lamar’s music is a battlefield of competing theologies embedded in the dissonance of lived experience.

If Exodus voices our collective hunger for deliverance, it also calls us to work for deliverance, toward liberatory action.

Lecrae’s “Set Me Free” is an artistic extension and expression of what he sees as an opportunity to not only set himself free but to also liberate others from the vices of self-serving attitudes that consume our culture. 

In these seasons of Advent and Christmas especially, history points to a church whose worship is particularly political.