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b'Several weeks after Lecrae dropped his latest album, the biggest name in Christian hip-hop joined the podcast Truth\\u2019s Table. The topic of conversation: the rapper\\u2019s musical and personal transformation since his last album, a three-year period during which Lecrae become increasingly vocal in speaking up about racial injustice. Listen here In response to a question about whether he \\u201cdivorced white evangelicalism,\\u201d he said: I spoke out very frequently throughout 2016 in many different ways and it affected me. I went from a show that may have had 3,000 there to 300 but that was the cost. But those 300 people were people who I knew loved Lecrae, the black man, the Christian, all of who Lecrae was, not the caricature that had been drawn up for them. Lecrae\\u2019s decision to distance himself from evangelicalism is personally familiar to Carl Ellis Jr., a senior fellow at the African American Leadership Institute and a professor at Reformed Theological Seminary, who doesn\\u2019t consider himself reflected in the movement. \\u201cI cannot identify with much of what evangelicalism identifies with,\\u201d Ellis said. \\u201cYes I believe Scripture to be the inerrant, inspired, infallible Word of God and all of that, but on the other hand, there\\u2019s so much baggage that goes along with it.\\u201d Like Lecrae, another obstacle for Ellis in connecting with the movement was its lack of emphasis on justice issues. \\u201cI was very active in the civil rights movement,\\u201d said Ellis, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. \\u201cBut when I got saved, I somehow got the subliminal message that I had to leave all of that behind. I think Lecrae was picking up on the fact that there\\u2019s something wrong here.\\u201d Ellis joined assistant editor Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli to discuss the genesis of Lecrae and John Piper\\u2019s relationship, what it means when someone stops identifying as evangelical, and what Lecrae\\u2019s actions and words suggest about where the church is on issues of racial justice.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'