Program Staff

Marshall Craver

Marshall Craver is Associate Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Mobile, AL, ministering primarily in the areas of adult spiritual formation, meditation and contemplative prayer groups and retreats, and one-on-one spiritual direction. He is a graduate of Shalem’s Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreats Program and is currently enrolled with the Jesuits of Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL, in their certificate program for spiritual direction.

Carole A. Crumley

Carole Crumley, Shalem’s Senior Program Director, is an Episcopal priest and Director of Shalem's Clergy Spiritual Life and Leadership: Going Deeper Program. She is a widely respected leader of ecumenical retreats, groups, and conferences, and a seasoned pilgrimage guide to sacred sites throughout Europe and the Middle East.

Ann Dean

Ann Dean is Director of Shalem’s Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreats Program. She retired from pastoring an ecumenical faith community in the Church of the Saviour in 2004 and is a member of the Dayspring Retreat Mission Group, which sponsors multi-faith retreat days throughout the year. She is a co-founder of the Shalom Innernet Group, which has fostered peacemaking through multi-faith contemplative prayer groups since 1999.

Tilden H. Edwards, PhD.

Tilden H. Edwards, Jr. is Shalem’s Founder and Senior Fellow, an Episcopal priest, author or editor of seven books on the spiritual life (including one on group spiritual formation), and leader of introductory and continuing spiritual formation/exploration groups at Shalem for 25 years.

Jim Hall

Jim Hall has practiced medicine at an inner city health clinic associated with the Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC, for many years. These days he spends most of his time at Dayspring, the church's retreat farm, studying natural history and ecology and building a new Earth Ministry Center. He and his wife lead classes, retreats, outings and liturgies on the land that link faith and ecology.

Patience Robbins

Patience Robbins is a Roman Catholic laywoman who joined Shalem's adjunct staff in 1997. She serves on the staff of Shalem's Clergy Spiritual Life and Leadership Program and Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreats Program and has been participating and working with group spiritual direction since 1997.

Liz Ward

Liz Ward is an Episcopal layperson and a graduate of Shalem’s Spiritual Guidance Program. She is an experienced spiritual guide and retreat leader and has assisted several local churches desiring corporate discernment.