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Martin Luther King, Jr. College of Ministers and Laity at Moorehouse College
2026

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1999

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Black church urban gardens as contemporary refugia

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Biblical Accounts of Racial Profiling and the Social Death of Black Lives

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Cultic Spiritualization: Religious Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and Its Contexts)

Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, Ph.D., joined the faculty of Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary as associate professor of Christian Scriptures in the fall of 2022. He is concurrently serving as director of the Black Church Studies Program. Prior to this, he was the founding Dean and Associate Professor of Biblical Languages and Literature at Allen University’s Dickerson-Green Theological Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina.

Dr. Hopkins has been a Christ and Being Human Pedagogy Fellow with Yale University's Center for Faith and Culture (2020-2024) and a Faculty Research Fellow with the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University (2023-2024). He is a current Fellow with the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies, where he is part of the research group on The Post-Secular Conception of Science and a contributor to the Defending Religious Freedom Initiative. His research has been supported by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, the Calvin Institute for Christian Worship, and the Sacred Writes Media Partnership. 

Having also been ordained as a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Church of God in Christ, he is the author of numerous publications, including the book Cultic Spiritualization: Religious Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Gorgias Press, 2022) and the forthcoming biblical commentary 1-3 John (Word and Spirit Commentary on the New Testament Series, Baker Academic Press).

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Associate Professor of Christian Scriptures | Director of the Black Church Studies Program

In this episode, Jeremiah Chandler, Jamal Dominique Hopkins, and Kevin Hawkins delve into Jamal's research on the Dead Sea Scrolls and how it reshapes the narrative around blackness, affirming dignity in a context where that has not always been granted.


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Black Dignity and the Dead Sea Scrolls -Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, Jeremiah Chandler and Kevin Hawkins

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In this episode, Jeremiah Chandler, Darrell Bock, Jerome Gay, and Jamal-Dominique Hopkins discuss the historical and theological roots behind the notion that Christianity is a "white man's religion," examining its ties to colonialism, slavery, and whitewashed theology, while highlighting Christianity's diverse, global heritage and offering insights to engage thoughtfully with this complex topic. 

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Is Christianity a Western Religion?  - Jerome Gay, Jamal-Dominique Hopkins

This week I’m joined again by Dr. Hopkins, professor at Truett Seminary, as we open up 1 John 2 and talk about what it really means to “not love the world.”
So often this passage is misused or misapplied—but when we step into the text faithfully, we discover something far richer and deeper for our lives today.
We’ll also continue along the Interpretive Journey, moving into the 5th and final step: grasping the text in our town.This is where Scripture comes off the page and into our daily lives, shaping how we live as God’s people here and now.
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“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” —1 John 2:15

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