Ralf Schowalter serves as Assistant Professor of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and also teaches Biblical Studies and Academic Writing at the Bonn Bible Seminary (Bibelseminar Bonn) in Germany. Before entering vocational ministry and theological education, he served in the German Armed Forces and worked as a driving instructor and self-employed entrepreneur in commercial freight transport. He studied Protestant Theology at the Protestant University of Wuppertal before completing Bachelor's and Master'sstudies at the Bonn Bible Seminary, a Master of Theology in Missiology at the University of South Africa, and a Ph.D. at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where his dissertation examined the theology of the German Anabaptist Hans Denck. Schowalter has served the Mennonite congregation in Rhaunen, Germany, as preacher, then pastor, and currently as co-elder. He has taught at Southwestern since 2017. His guiding text for ministry is 1 Corinthians 4:1–2: “This is how everyone should regard us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Now no more is required of stewards than that they be found faithful.”