At Jubilee, krumping for Christ

Today in the Globe's City Weekly section, Katherine McInerney takes a look at "krumping for Christ,'' using the new hip-hop dance style to interpret Scripture. She found local krumpers at the Jubilee Christian Church in Mattapan.

"We don't just do it to dance," added Benito Henri, a towering 16-year-old from Dorchester. "We do it for something higher. Something more than us, more than movements, more than anything we say out of our mouths. . . . We're using this as a weapon to fight against the things that we go through daily."

Several other local churches have explored the use of hip-hop music and dance forms as a way of reaching out to young people. Last year, City Weekly featured a story by Will Kilburn about the first Holy Hip Hop Awareness Weekend; the previous year, City Weekly's Darren Sands visited Cram Sessions, a recording effort by Christian rap artists in Mattapan; and the year before that, Globe South's Carolyn Johnson explored the appearance of hip-hop in a variety of churches. Even the Episcopal Church has gotten in on the action; last year, the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts's Cathedral Church of St. Paul hosted a "Hip-Hop Schoolhouse Worship Learning Party.''