Hip hop hope.For two years the Rev. Timothy Holder has been holding "hip hop hip-hop or hip hop n. 1. A popular urban youth culture, closely associated with rap music and with the style and fashions of African-American inner-city residents. 2. Rap music. adj. Masses" at Trinity Episcopal Church Episcopal Church, Anglican church of the United States. Its separate existence as an American ecclesiastical body with its own episcopate began in 1789. Doctrine and Organization in New York's South Bronx. Notwithstanding its common association with violence and vulgar language, rapper Kurtis Blow This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. Unverifiable material about living persons must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. , who has participated in these liturgies, says, "Hip hop is a gift from God.... I was shivering shivering /shiv·er·ing/ (shiv´er-ing) 1. involuntary shaking of the body, as with cold. 2. a disease of horses, with trembling or quivering of various muscles. shivering see shiver, stringhalt. inside; as I felt the Holy Spirit in the room." Holder has edited the just-released Hip Hop Prayer Book (Church Publishing), which contains this version of Psalm 23: "The Lord is all that, I need for nothing. / He allows me to chill.... / And even though I walk through the Hood of death, I don't back down for you have my back.... / He provides me with back-up in front of my player-haters, and I know that I am a baller and life will be phat. I fall back in the Lord's crib for the rest of my life." (www. hiphopemass.org) |
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