The Gospel Coalition has a discussion of spoken word poetry in light of the recent viral explosion of Jefferson Bethke's "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus." They have some interesting discussion with rapper Shai Linne and his wife Blair, also a spoken word poet. Worth checking out a very powerful artistic medium being used to proclaim Christ.
They also include some examples some really good videos of Christian spoken word poetry, including some favorites of mine. Here's 2:
My all-time favorite:
And one of the best live readings I've seen:
And here's 2 more of my personal favorites:
"Silence is Deadly"
"True Social Justice"
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