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I was asked to respond to a set of questions for an interview, I thought, "why not turn this into an episode!" So, here are my thoughts and reflections on 2021 Hip Hop and religion.

This is a talk I gave for a conference here in 2020 on using Hip Hop as a resistance tool in the fight for equity. I center Tupac in this as one of those artists who embodied that resistance. Check it out.

!!!!EXPLICIT!!! This is a talk I gave at Theocon this year. Tripp Fuller, the podfather himself, invited me to give this talk and I figured this be a great subject to explore and get into. Notes are in the show notes on the website. Enjoy!

This was part of my COVID 19 lecture series for the spring of 2020 courses that I taught. I had the oppurtunity to talk with my friend and colleage Paul Hammond II about machine learning, digital culture, and what it all means. Deep! This was for my Family and Friends in the Mediated Era course.

This conversation was part of my COVID 19 lecture series for my spring 2020 classes. I was truly honored to have my friend Dr. Elizabeth Pierre come and talk through relationship issues and self care. This was for my interpersonal comm class.

!!!EXPLICIT!!! This is part of the COVID 19 lecture series I developed for my online courses in the spring of 2020. This conversation was intense and went a long with my intercultural comm class.

Well, it's about time I actually do a very LATE intro to the podcast series! Sheesh. Check it out.

So, this is a talk back when I was still like, an evangelical. It's still got a little bite; it was for a conference I never got invited back to, so, there's that.

This was one of many talks I gave on film, theology, and a contextualized version of Jesuz. This was given at UYWI (Urban Youth Workers Institute) back in 2012.

This was a keynote I gave back in 2013 at one of the premier X-tian conferences that happened odd years, the Festival of Faith and Music out at Calvin College. This talk focused on Tupac Amaru Shakur...peep it out.

This was a talk I gave back in 2015 at the Association for Youth Ministry Educators. It was presenting research and the backbone to my latest book, Homeland Insecurity with IVP Academic.

This is a talk Dr. Hodge gave in the month of October 2019 at First Church of Lombard United Church of Christ

This is a talk Dr. Hodge gave at the annual meet of the American Society of Missiologists in 2012.