Dr. Ruth Padilla DeBorst yearns to see peace and justice embrace in the beautiful and broken world we call home. A wife of one, mother of many, theologian, missiologist, educator, and storyteller, she has been involved in leadership development and theological education for integral mission in her native Latin America for several decades. She teaches at Western Theological Seminary and serves with the Comunidad de Estudios Teológicos Interdisciplinarios (CETI), a learning community with students across Latin America, and with INFEMIT (International Fellowship for Mission as Transformation). She serves on the boards of A Rocha Costa Rica, the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, the American Society of Missiology, and the Global Christian Forum. Ruth lives with her husband, James, in Costa Rica as a member of Casa Adobe, an intentional Christian community with deep concern for right living in relation to the whole of creation.