Joseph Evans is the Dean of the Morehouse School of Religion and author of Lifting the Veil Over Eurocentrism: The Du Boisian Hermeneutic of Double Consciousness published by Africa World Press (2014). He is the author of numerous scholarly articles that include "Vernon Johns and the Romance With Death" in the American Baptist Quarterly and The Radical Nature of the Du Boisian Metanarrative and Economic Reparations" in the Homiletic (Spring 2016). Gardner Taylor once described Evans as one of the "brilliant preachers of his generation." Dr. Evans is married and has two adult children and a grandson.