Jim Cassidy was born in Elizabeth, NJ in 1974. He graduated from St. Anselm College with a BA in Philosophy and Westminster Theological Seminary with the M.Div and Ph.D. His doctoral dissertation explores Karl Barth's Christological mode of relating time and eternity and has been published as God’s Time For Us: Barth on the Reconciliation of Eternity and Time in Jesus Christ. His continual interest includes research in area of the evangelical and Reformed reception of Barth in the 20th century. Currently, Jim serves as the Pastor at South Austin Presbyterian Church in Austin, TX.