2026 Reality Forum
2026 Forum Schedule
9:00 – 9:15: Arrive, connect, coffee/tea9:15 – 9:30: Welcome9:30 – 9:50: Music with Meeksquad9:50 – 10:40: The reality of mutuality in Christ: swimming upstream in an us/them world – Jeff McSwain10:40 – 11:15: Creative Scripture engagement11:15 – 12:15: Stories of Mutuality from Reality staff12:15 – 1:00: Lunch1:00 – 2:00: Experiencing Mutuality – panel of Reality community members2:15 – 2:30: Closing with Meeksquad
Jeff McSwain, Ph.D.
Jeff McSwain is the founder of Reality Ministries (2007), a co-founder of the North Street Neighborhood (2012), and currently the Theologian in Residence at Experience Reality Inc. A history major at Davidson College, he later earned masters and PhD degrees in theology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Jeff recently completed a two-volume work with Cascade: Hidden in Contradiction: Humanity in Christ Before, During, and After the Fall (2023), and The Goodness of Judgment: The Ministry of Christ’s Cross for a Hurting World (2024). His passion is to teach how the reality of Christ, not only believed but embodied, can create systemic change in the world.
The Meek Squad – Suvya Carroll, Sloan Meek, and Lee Anderson
Suvya Carroll, Sloan Meek, and Lee Anderson are three friends who love to sing together. They are also neighbors in the North Street Neighborhood – two blocks of beloved community in downtown Durham, born of relationships formed through Reality Ministries. In the summer of 2019 they teamed up with Jeff Crawford (Arbor Ridge Studios) and Daniel Goans (Lowland Hum) to record an album of original music that has grown out of their community life together. During the recording process they received the nickname ‘Meek Squad’ and it stuck. ‘I Am For You: Songs of Prayer and Peace’ was released on March 24th, 2020. Their second album, ‘Hope’, was released in 2024. You can listen to their music here and learn more of their story here.