Timothy L. Adkins-Jones
Assistant Professor of Homiletics
- Title Assistant Professor of Homiletics
- Office STH 333
- Email tljones@bu.edu
- Education PhD, Boston University
MDiv, Boston University
BA, Amherst College
Timothy Levi Adkins-Jones is the Assistant Professor of Homiletics and his research focus includes Black preaching, preaching and protest, communal homiletics, and church leadership.
His, Let the Church Say Amen! Practicing a Black Communal Homiletic (Fortress Press) focuses on the conversation that the congregation has with the preacher before, during, and after the sermon, and how that conversation shapes both the content and delivery of the sermon.
He is currently working on a second monograph that examines the complex relationship between preaching and protest, using the sermons preached in or around “Bloody Sunday (1965)” in Selma, AL and the “Hoodie Sunday” sermons preached in the aftermath of Trayvon Martin’s murder in 2012. Tentatively titled, Preaching and Protest: From Bloody Sunday to Hoodie Sunday,” this work will categorize the different ways that preaching and protest interact, offer a definition for “protest preaching,” and offer some exemplary examples of this genre of preaching.