Marilyn Holt
Marilyn Holt is a historian of American orphanages and an expert on the history of American Indian adoption. She wrote Indian Orphanages and The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America.
Region: United States of America
“Christian Hip-Hop: The Future of Christian Music?”
Read a Jan 5, 2012 Christian Post article about Christian hiphop, its growing popularity and some churches’ hesitancy to accept the genre with open arms.
“Rappers Are Raising Their Churches’ Roofs”
Read a Sept. 13, 2004 New York Times article about the developing relationship between hiphop and Christianity.
“How Christian Hip-Hop Could Call the American Church Back to the Gospel–and Hip-Hop Back to Its Roots”
Read an April 21, 2013 Christianity Today article about how Christian hiphop might be another form of evangelical marketing.
“Why Christian Hip Hop Is Not a Failure”
Read a April 29, 2008 Patheos article in response to “The Failure of Christian Hip Hop.”
Linda S. Spears
Linda S. Spears is the vice president of the Child Welfare League of America. She has been a social worker, manager and agency head and is a former director of field support for the Massachusetts Department of Social Services. An enrolled member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, she is expert on issues of Indian child […]
“Florida Church Leaders Preach Hip-Hop Style”
Read a June 17, 2013 article about the differentiation of traditional hiphop to Gospel hiphop and the positive messages the latter preaches.
Simon Martin
Simon Martin is a Mayanist scholar and senior research specialist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, known as the Penn Museum. Martin is co-curator of an exhibit there titled “Maya 2012: Lords of Time,” and he is co-author of Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya.
Adam Pertman
Adam Pertman is the executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute in New York City. He wrote Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America.