Thomas holds a Ph.D. in leadership from the University of Central Arkansas. His dissertation title is Leaderships Influence Upon Muslim Identity Formation in Arkansas: A Qualitative Study. He also holds a Master of Divinity from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, with an emphasis in Pastoral Care, and a B.A. from Charleston Southern University in Charleston, SC, with an emphasis in Religious Studies. He is a graduate of the International Institute for Japan Studies, Nigawa, Japan, and the Kansai Missionary Language Institute, Kobe, Japan. He is fluent in Japanese.
Dr. Nowlin completed 5 years of work toward a PhD in Theology, Church History and Missiology at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, TN. He also completed independent study in philosophy and Japanese at the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN.
Dr. Nowlin has 23 years in Christian ministry – a pastor of four stateside churches in Kentucky and Arkansas (11 years) and a denominational missionary to Japan (12 years).
Having studied the Shinto paleo-paganism of Japan he became interested in studying the Irish Druidry of his family ancestry.
A graduate of the US Navy’s elite nuclear power school, and a former submarine nuclear operator during the Cold War, he later became a Conscientious Objector to the use of nuclear weapons.
He is currently an electric utility office manager and a farmer in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. He is committed to clean efficient energy use, sustainable agricultural practices, and whole natural foods.
Dr. Nowlin is passionate about the study of leadership, philosophy, theology, and ethics, and their disciplined practical application in facilitating the health and well-being of humanity, our planet, and our environment. He is a practitioner of the spiritual disciplines – simplicity, meditation, virtuous living, piety, study, service, etc.
