The Black Church Studies Program Distinguished Lecture will be held on Monday, February 24, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. This year's event will feature Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones presenting a lecture entitled "Take Me To the Water: Black Mothers, Black Madonnas, and the Initiation of Possibility."

Register to attend virtually at https://tcu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vCutTIKTSCSKxvms32UxoQ#/registration

Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Theology and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Duke Divinity School, she received her Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University in 2016 with a Certificate in Feminist Theory. She was the first Black woman to graduate from the doctoral program in Christian theology and ethics.

Rev. Dr. Adkins-Jones' first book, Immaculate Misconceptions: A Black Mariology (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) is a Black feminist theological account of the icon of the Black Madonna and the rise of the global sex trade. She is at work on a second book project, See No Evil, which thinks about artificial intelligence and anti-Blackness.

Outside of academia, Rev. Dr. Adkins-Jones is an ordained Baptist minister who frequently preaches and teaches around the country, and brings pastoral sensibility to her work centering social justice. She is a practicing birth worker, a trained iconographer, and has a career background in UX Copywriting and Design. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. A ‘displaced Southerner,’ she joyfully builds community and hospitality with her beloved spouse, the Rev. Dr. Timothy Adkins-Jones, and their four beautifully hilarious children in Newark, NJ.