2025 Reality Forum

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2025 Forum Featuring…

Jeff McSwain – Founder of Reality Ministries
Jeff, (PhD St Andrews, Scotland) founded Reality Ministries in 2007. He recently completed a two-volume work: Hidden in Contradiction: Humanity in Christ Before, During, and After the Fall (Cascade, 2023), and The Goodness of Judgment: The Ministry of Christ’s Cross for a Hurting World (Cascade, 2024). His passion is to teach how the reality of Christ, not only believed but embodied, can create systemic change in the world.

Louis Threatt – Founder of UR Restored
Louis founded and leads Cities of Refuge Church and URRestored Ministries, works closely with Rev. Dr. William Barber and Repairers of the Breach, has served with Project Turn, is a Duke Div grad/instructor of prison ministry and restorative justice classes, has been a prison chaplain and leads the Reality Gospel Choir. He has a huge heart and vision for the left out, forgotten and abandoned, especially those impacted by incarceration.

Margot Starbuck – Author and Speaker
Margot is the author of Small Things With Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor (InterVarsity Press). (Big idea? Love your neighbors right where you are!) She is a graduate of Westmont College and Princeton Theological Seminary. Margot’s day job is writing and editing books and her great joy is living among neighbors in Durham, North Carolina. A resident of North Street Neighborhood, Margot treasures Durham’s rich history and delights in meeting new neighbors, daily, out in these streets.

Meeksquad – Musicians Suvya Carroll, Sloan Meek and Lee Anderson
Along with a wide variety of other voices from folks in our Reality community

If you have any questions, please reach out to greg@realityministries.org.