Rev. Timothy Levi Adkins-Jones Ph.D. Eric A. Thomas is a professor, pastor, and public theologian whose research engages Queer of Color Biblical Criticism, Black Studies, and theopoetics. Eric is the Pastor of Siloam Presbyterian Church in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and the Assistant Professor of Bible at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City. His work invites us to imagine everyday embodiments of freedom, flourishing, and futures, alongside communities for whom such pursuits are impeded by imperial Christianity and its attendant logics of heteronormativity, respectability politics, and erotophobia. Eric is a graduate of Drew University where he completed the PhD in New Testament with concentrations in Africana, and Women and Gender Studies, and the Interdenominational Theological Center where he completed his M.Div. He enjoys naps, spending quality time with his spouse Carlos, and Rottweiler puppy, Zeus.