Dr. Kathleen Hope-Brown, DMin

Kathy is affiliate faculty at Virginia Theological Seminary and DeSales University, where she teaches spiritual direction and spirituality studies.  She is the co-founder and primary instructor of the Bon Secours Spiritual Direction Institute and Director of Spiritual Care Services at the Saint Luke Institute in Silver Spring, MD, a psychiatric treatment facility for clergy and religious.  Kathy trained at Catholic University and the Washington Theological Union.  She is the author of Lay Leaders of Worship: A Practical and Spiritual Guide (Liturgical Press 2004) and co-author of Companions on the Journey: The Gift of Spiritual Friendship (DeSales Resource Center, 2006). Her article about spiritual direction with victims of abuse was published in Presence (Vol 23, No 4) in December 2017.