{"id":58392,"date":"2025-07-01T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=58392"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:45:49","slug":"timothy-l-adkins-jones-2","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/timothy-l-adkins-jones-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy L. Adkins-Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>His, <em>Let the Church Say Amen<\/em>! <em>Practicing a Black Communal Homiletic<\/em> (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.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently working on a second monograph that examines the complex relationship between preaching and protest, using the sermons preached in or around \u201cBloody Sunday (1965)\u201d in Selma, AL and the \u201cHoodie Sunday\u201d sermons preached in the aftermath of Trayvon Martin\u2019s murder in 2012.\u00a0 Tentatively titled, <em>Preaching and Protest: From Bloody Sunday to Hoodie Sunday,\u201d<\/em> this work will categorize the different ways that preaching and protest interact, offer a definition for \u201cprotest preaching,\u201d and offer some exemplary examples of this genre of preaching.<\/p>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<h3>Books<\/h3>\n<p>Let the Church Say Amen: A Black Communal Homiletic <em>(forthcoming)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Articles<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cBlack Preaching in Brown Places: Towards the Development of a Black Mestizo Homiletic.\u201d Homiletic Vol 40, No 1 (2015)<\/p>\n<h3>Commentaries<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Christian Century Lectionary Commentaries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaundy Thursday 2024, John 13:1-17, 31b-35 A Routine Kind of Love (March 21, 2024)<br \/>\nGood Friday 2024, John 18:1-19:42, I AM? (March 22, 2024)<br \/>\nEaster 2024, Luke 24:1-12, Free at Last!! (March 25, 2024)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Working Preaching Commentaries (www.workingpreacher.org)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark 13:24-37 &#8211; Confused Arrival\u201d (December 3, 2023)<br \/>\n\u201cMark 1:1-8 \u2013 Wake Up!\u201d (December 10, 2023)<br \/>\n\u201cJohn 1:6-8, 19-28 \u2013 The Unworthiest of All\u201d (December 17, 2023)<br \/>\n\u201cLuke 2:1-14 [15-20] \u2013 Blessings and Not a Burden\u201d (December 24, 2023)<\/p>\n<p>Between Text and Sermon, John 2:13-22 Interpretation Volume 77, Issue 4 (October 12, 2023)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[20],"sth_phd_student_type":[],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58535,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58392\/revisions\/58535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=58392"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=58392"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=58392"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=58392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}