Darvin Anton Adams is an adjunct professor of theology and biblical languages at Simmons College of Kentucky in Louisville, and pastors the Lane Tabernacle CME Church in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He also serves as Scholar In-Residence for the Second Episcopal District under Bishop Marvin Frank Thomas Sr. Adams completed his PhD in theology and ethics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. An eight-time award-winning preacher, Adams is the author of Inner-City Blues: Black Theology and Black Poverty in the United States (2022).