Timothy L. Adkins-Jones

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.

Publications

Books

Let the Church Say Amen: A Black Communal Homiletic (forthcoming)

Articles

“Black Preaching in Brown Places: Towards the Development of a Black Mestizo Homiletic.” Homiletic Vol 40, No 1 (2015)

Commentaries

Christian Century Lectionary Commentaries

“Maundy Thursday 2024, John 13:1-17, 31b-35 A Routine Kind of Love (March 21, 2024)
Good Friday 2024, John 18:1-19:42, I AM? (March 22, 2024)
Easter 2024, Luke 24:1-12, Free at Last!! (March 25, 2024)

Working Preaching Commentaries (www.workingpreacher.org)

“Mark 13:24-37 – Confused Arrival” (December 3, 2023)
“Mark 1:1-8 – Wake Up!” (December 10, 2023)
“John 1:6-8, 19-28 – The Unworthiest of All” (December 17, 2023)
“Luke 2:1-14 [15-20] – Blessings and Not a Burden” (December 24, 2023)

Between Text and Sermon, John 2:13-22 Interpretation Volume 77, Issue 4 (October 12, 2023)