Servant Leadership Faculty
Servant Leadership I Faculty:
**Designates Communion Class Faculty:
**Kaye
Bernard is a member of St. Paul’s
and a Spiritual Director certified by the Spiritual Direction Institute of Houston. Kaye serves St. Scholastica Monastery
in Fort Smith as a Benedictine Oblate, and a member of various Monastery Boards.
The Rev. Emily Bost,
Deacon at St. Paul’s, is a Certified
Volunteer Manager and retired Registered Nurse. Emily has spent most of adulthood in service to those in
need, with a passion for abused women and children, and victims of natural disasters. She has a special
interest in the support and guidance of those who are in process of discerning their “call” and life ministry.
**Nicholas Cole is
a retired physician who has been practicing and teaching Centering Prayer at St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, CO for
may years. Nick is excited about sharing the Centering Prayer practice elucidated by Father Thomas Keating and others.
**The Rev. Lowell E. Grisham is the rector of St. Paul’s. He serves on the board of the Seven Hills Homeless and Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. He’s
a co-convener of the Chicago Consultation. Lowell received a B.A. from Ole Miss and M.Div. from the General Theological Seminary.
Linda Jones is an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at the U of A. This year she will serve
as Acting Teaching Assistant Coordinator, leading French graduate students in the "art" of teaching. Linda
has a particular interest in healing ministries, including healing touch, healing music and chaplaincy.
Bob McMath is Dean of the Honors College and Professor at the University of Arkansas. He was for many years
a professor and administrator at Georgia Tech, where he helped establish a student leadership program which incorporated principles
of Servant Leadership.
Mary Miller, Chaplain, is a member of St. Paul’s and serves on the staff as Administrative
Assistant. Through St. Paul’s Mary is active in dream and prayer groups, the labyrinth ministry and the NWA Friends
of Jung.
**The Rev. Suzanne Stoner is Associate for Pastoral Care at St. Paul’s. Suzanne has a particular interest
in various kinds of healing ministries as well as small group spiritual formation practices.
Loyd Swope retired as President and Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lincoln, AR after twenty nine years of service.
Upon retirement, Loyd helped to organize the Legacy National Bank of Springdale, AR where he serves on the Board of
Directors. Loyd is also the Chairman of the Board of Central EMS and was appointed to the Prairie Grove
Battlefield Park Commission by Governor Beebe. He is a lifetime member of the American Legion and a graduate
of the University of Arkansas.
**The Rev. Dr. Steve Thomason is a Priest Associate at St. Paul ’s, and formerly served as Rector of St. Thomas,
Springdale, and as Canon Missioner of the Diocese of Arkansas.
He has a bivocational ministry as priest and physician, serving as Chief Medical Officer at Circle of Life Hospice through
the week and at the altar of St. Paul’s on Sundays. He enjoys teaching in the areas of theology, ethics and medicine.
Elliott West is the Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at the University
of Arkansas. Elliott specializes in the history of the American West and American Environmental History.
SERVANT LEADERSHIP II - RADICAL HOSPITALITY CO-FACILTATORS:
John Morgan and Katherine Barnhardt-Thrift will co-lead the Lectio Divina
practices and facilitate this book study discussion group on the Benedictine charism of "Radical Hospitality". Both
facilitators are Benedictine Oblates of St. Scholastica Benedictine Monastery in Fort Smith, AR.
