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Timothy Adkins-Jones
Timothy Adkins-Jones is assistant professor of homiletics at Boston University School of Theology and author of Let the Church Say Amen: Practicing a Black Communal Homiletic.
The limits of our convictions (Romans 14:1-12)
Paul assures us that conviction does not equal authority.
September 13, Ordinary 24A (Exodus 14:19–31; Psalm 114)
Sometimes God changes history by moving oceans, sometimes by making the wheels fall off.
A text thick with tension (Exodus 12:1-14)
The Passover story is filled with competing ideas.
September 6, Ordinary 23A (Matthew 18:15–20)
Jesus is not handing the church a timeless conflict resolution manual, however much we might long for one.
March 29, Good Friday (John 18:1–19:42)
On the cross, the God-man who has repeatedly declared “I am” now begins to say that he is not.
March 28, Maundy Thursday (John 13:1–17, 31b–35)
How might the church’s history have been different if foot washing had caught on more widely?
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October 17, Ordinary 29B (Job 38:1-7, 34-41)
I don’t want to hear any more from Eliphaz, Bildad, or Zophar. I want answers.