Jason Oliver Evans is a Ph.D. student in the Christian Theological Perspectives at the University of Virginia.  He studies Christology, soteriology, creation and theological anthropology, considering how identity, race, sexuality, and gender more broadly factor into the study of Christian faith and practice. He is also interested in Trinitarian theology, pneumatology, ecclesiology, practical theology, Scripture and theological hermeneutics, and the thought of 20th-century Reformed theologian Karl Barth.   Evans earned a Bachelor of Science in speech communication at the Millersville University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Divinity at Duke Divinity School, and a Master of Theology at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He is an ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches USA.