About Me
I’m Timothy Hankins, a bi-vocational United Methodist Elder serving two small churches in East Tennessee, a writer with twenty-five years of work behind me, and a theologian with an MDiv from Candler School of Theology at Emory University. My theological roots are Anglican and Wesleyan — sacramental, liturgical, and stubbornly hopeful.
I grew up in ministry. My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher turned Methodist deacon. My father was a Charismatic Episcopal priest. My mother has played piano for churches her entire life. I spent years running from a calling I couldn’t shake, wandering through newspapers and Europe and Western New York before eventually finding my way back.
Then I lost my son Titus. And the running stopped mattering the way it used to.
Notes from the Aftermath is about life after death. I’m a grieving father, a writer, a theologian trying to find something in the rubble. This publication chronicles grief, fractured faith, and theological reconstruction in the wake of unimaginable loss. If you’re still breathing in the aftermath of something, these words are for you.
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The comments here aren’t a debate hall—they’re a campfire. Bring your questions, your doubts, your half-formed thoughts. We’re all figuring this out together.
A note on process
The theological thinking here is my own, informed by theologians past and present. Much of my writing begins as speech (sermons, Bible studies, dictated car thoughts, etc.) and AI helps me get it from mouth to page. I also use AI as an editor and for research. Gallery images are AI-generated.
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