The Provincial Council

Brother Dunstan 

Br. Dunstan is from Wonder Lake, Illinois. He is a member of Annunciation of Our Lady Episcopal Church in Gurnee, Illinois. He is pursuing ordination to the priesthood  in the Episcopal Church and working on a doctoral degree in ministry. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Hope at the Well PLLC a religious trauma ministry. 

He is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience working in the mental health field.  He has held senior leadership and middle management positions at social service agencies, skilled nursing facilities, psychiatric hospitals, and federally qualified health centers while managing teams of mental health clinicians and psychiatrists. 

He is also a college educator who teaches coursework on gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, marriage and family, deviance, and ethics. He holds graduate degrees in Social Work, Sociology, and Divinity. He is a Level II-Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional who has completed specialty training in religious trauma.

He has been married to Kelsey for 6 years and they have 4 children, 2 dogs, and a cat. Br. Dunstan is a student/scholar of Celtic Christianity, avid reader, and hodophile.

Brother Jonathan Severus 

Br. Jonathan Severus is from Martin, Tennessee and attended the University of Tennessee at Martin where he majored in History with a minor in Religious Studies and Philosophy. 

He  serves locally as a long-term care and hospice chaplain. Jonathan is presently in seminary working on his Master of Divinity in preparation for ordination to the priesthood in the Alexandrian Community, an Independent Catholic community where he serves as a subdeacon. 

He is also a member of All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Kansas City, MO, where he serves as a religious education teacher and on the Audit Committee. Jonathan has been married to Devon for 10 wonderful years and they share their home with a zoo of fur and scaly babies. Br. Jonathan Severus is a major Anglophile and enjoys gardening, reading, traveling, and large lego sets.