Connecting Christ & Culture Conference

Jamal-Dominique Hopkins is Associate Professor of Christian Scriptures and Director of the Black Church Studies Program at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary. Prior to this, he was the founding Dean of Allen University’s Dickerson-Green Theological Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina. Dr. Hopkins holds a Pedagogy Fellowship with Yale University's Center for Faith and Culture and a Faculty Research Fellowship with the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University.

Dr. Hopkins has served in ministerial roles in both the Church of God in Christ and the African Methodist Episcopal Church as an ordained reverend. He holds a B.A. from Howard University, an M.A. in theology and biblical studies from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester (U.K.). He has presented his scholarship at Yale University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Boston University, The Catholic University of America, Emory University, the University of Edinburgh (U.K.), Durham University (U.K.), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and other venues. Dr. Hopkins’ research focuses on the intersection of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran Studies with Biblical Literature and Black Religious Thought. His recent book is entitled Cultic Spiritualization: Religious Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Gorgias Press, 2022). Dr.

Hopkins and his wife, Karen, reside in the Waco, TX area. He can be followed at www.jamalhopkins.com and on Twitterand Instagram @phdhopkins.

Dr. Timothy Roosevelt Fuller was saved at the age of 16 and immediately became active in his church.  Early in life, he demonstrated a passion for ministry.  A few years later, he was called to preach under the leadership of Rev. William Dwight Mckissic, Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Baptist church in Arlington, Texas.

In 1990, Dr. Fuller earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Texas at Arlington.  In 2007, he earned his Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. In spring of 2018, he earned a Ph.D. in Preaching from Southwestern Baptist Seminary, the first African American to graduate from the School of Preaching.

Dr. Fuller is currently the pastor of St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Euless and a professor at Foster College in Dallas Texas and has taught preaching adjunctively at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has conducted numerous workshops and seminars, locally, nationally, and internationally in Bible Interpretation, Expository Teaching and Preaching, and Old and New Testament Survey.  He has taught Bible classes in the Philippines, Dominican Republic, and in India.  He is married to Merlie Fuller and lives in Arlington, Texas. He has three children, D’Angela, Christian and Abigail.