Dr. Andrew Swafford

Andrew Swafford, STD, is a professor of theology at Benedictine College.

After completing his undergraduate studies at Benedictine College, Dr. Swafford earned a licentiate in sacred theology (STL) and doctorate in sacred theology (STD) from the University of St. Mary on the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois. He additional received an MA in Old Testament and Semitic Languages from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Bannockburn, Illinois.

He is a national speaker on a variety of topics and co-author of A Catholic Guide to the Old Testament, Gift and Grit: How Heroic Virtue Can Change Your Life and Relationships (with his wife Sarah), and What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith (with Marcellino D’Ambrosio) and co-host of Ascension’s video series filmed in Rome under the same title. He is general editor and contributor to Ascension’s Great Adventure Catholic Bible. Among his other publications are Ascension’s Bible studies on Romans and Hebrews, Spiritual Survival in the Modern World, and John Paul II to Aristotle and Back Again.

Dr. Swafford is an avid student of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and lives with his wife Sarah and their six children in Atchison, Kansas.