Meet the Team

Dr. McKinnon has lectured at the University of Cambridge and Swedenborg House in the United Kingdom and in association with the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a contributing writer for Mount Vernon’s George Washington Digital Encyclopedia, Reconciliation Reconsidered: Advancing the National Conversation on Race in Churches of Christ published by Abilene Christian University Press in 2016, and most recently Retracing Swedenborg: Texts, Contexts and Changing Perspectives to be released by London’s Swedenborg Society in November this year. 

In 2019, he served as co-leader of the Alabama Project of the Hanoverian Document Digitization, Georgian Papers Programme in partnership with the Royal Collections Trust–Windsor Castle, King’s College London, and the College of William and Mary. And early this year, he helped organize the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. McKinnon’s research interests include modern American religious and social movements, and he is currently completing a monograph titled The Epiphanies of Helen Keller: Swedenborgianism, Socialism, and the Representation of Disability in Twentieth-Century America.

He has served as the preaching minister for congregations in Alabama and Tennessee and has participated in international service and missions in Canada, Fiji, Panama, Peru, Scotland, and Vanuatu. 

He and his wife Bridget have three children, Jack (and daughter-in-law Adley), Sydney, and Drew. Bridget teaches 2nd Grade at Mars Hill Bible School. Jack is a graduate student in the Master of Science in Athletic Training program at the University of Alabama. His wife Adley teaches 8th grade science at Blocton Middle School in Centreville, Alabama. Sydney is a graduate student in the Master of Social Work program at Auburn University, and Drew is in his first semester at Auburn studying computer science. 

Brad has hiked Machu Picchu, bobsledded at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City, and cruised the Panama Canal. In his free time, he enjoys traveling with his family, playing tennis, hiking, reading, watching Jeopardy!, and following Auburn athletics.