Jeff McSwain

Director of Ministry Formation | Reality Ministries, Inc

Jeff McSwain is the Founder and current Director of Ministry Formation at Reality Ministries, Inc, in Durham, NC (founded 2007). The non-profit’s mission is “creating opportunities for teens and adults with and without developmental disabilities to experience belonging, kinship and the life-changing Reality of Christ’s love.” Jeff has two degrees from St. Andrews, an MLitt (2002) and a PhD (2015). He has published various articles and two books, Movements of Grace: The Dynamic Christo-Realism of Barth, Bonhoeffer and the Torrances (2010), and most recently ‘Simul’ Sanctification: Barth’s Hidden Vision for Human Transformation (2018). Keen to stay at the interface between systematic theology and practical ministry, in the last ten years Jeff and his wife Susan have helped plant a new church, CityWell, and launch the North Street Neighborhood, an intentional community (17 houses) near downtown Durham where people of various abilities share life together.