A Calling to Redeem Rap Music

"We don’t challenge any heresy in the church!" John Perkins declared at a recent meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Church leaders had gathered to discuss the "the gospel and racial reconciliation"—a longtime struggle for the Southern Baptists, a denomination that split off from other American baptists in 1845 so that its ordained members could still own slaves. Pathological immorality: That's a heavy charge to make against an art form, particularly one that