This year’s Association of Practical Theology conference took a visit to Tuff City Styles, a tattoo parlor located on East Fordham Road across the street from Fordham’s Rose Hill campus. The theme of the conference was the meeting of theology and migration. About two dozen attendees of the conference visited the local parlor. The conference took place from April 8th to 10th and included a talk from Tamara Henry, Ph.D., religious education ‘14, an assistant professor of religious education at New York Theological Seminary. Henry spoke about how urban culture – graffiti, hip-hop, breakdancing – relate to practical theology. Henry, who is also the youth minister at Lenox Road Baptist Church in Brooklyn, discussed with her fellow theologians how urban art forms such as hip-hop provide a view into how young adults see their own situation and how they fight back against social injustice.
