Larry L. McSwain
Associate Dean, Doctor of Ministry Degree Program
Professor of Leadership

Watkins Christian Foundation Chair of Ministry

Dr. Larry L. McSwain is the Professor of Leadership. A graduate of Oklahoma State University, he then received his Bachelor of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Doctor of Sacred Theology from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and completed post-graduate study at the Graduate Theological Union and University of California, Berkeley. Prior to his arrival at McAfee, he was a Senior Fellow, University Commons, Mercer University. He was Professor of Church and Community, Dean of the School of Theology and Provost of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary as well as President of Shorter College in Rome, Georgia. Dr. McSwain teaches Leadership, Christian Ethics, and electives in Church Conflict and Baptist Ethics, in which he loves to help students understand and lead congregations to fulfill their mission in whatever context they find themselves.

Dr. McSwain was named in the Marquis Who’s Who in Religion (2007), and was recently installed to the Watkins Christian Foundation Chair of Ministry. He has published more than thirty articles, book chapters, co-authored three books, and edited Twentieth Century Shapers of Baptist Social Ethics.  Mercer University Press will soon publish Loving Beyond Our Theology: The Life and Ministry of Jimmy Raymond Allen.

Dr. McSwain is a member of Northside Drive Baptist Church in Atlanta where he is a member of the personnel committee, the technology committee and shares Church School teaching. In addition, he has five grandchildren, a wonderful wife, Sue, and they have an adorable Yorkshire Terrier named Prince William.