Who is this Low-Level Theologian?
Dr. A. J. Swoboda (Ph.D., Birmingham) is the associate professor of Bible and Theology at Bushnell University. He served as a college pastor on the University of Oregon campus for nearly ten years. For another decade, he planted and pastored an urban church in Portland, Oregon, called Theophilus, which continues to worship today. He leads a Doctor of Ministry program around Spiritual Formation and Soul Care at Friends University. He has taught at Portland Seminary, the London School of Theology, LIFE Pacific, Southeastern University, and Multnomah University. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Redeeming How We Talk (Moody), After Doubt (Brazos), and the award-winning Subversive Sabbath (Brazos). He’s also the co-host of the Slow Theology podcast with New Testament scholar Dr. Nijay Gupta. He loves Jesus deeply, has been married to Quinn for two decades, and is the proud father of one son, Elliot. They live and work—with their dog, Diggory, and twelve chickens—on an urban farm in Eugene, Oregon.
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