Elaine Padilla is Assistant Professor of Constructive Theology and Director of Assessment at New York Theological Seminary. Her research, teaching, and writing engage the areas of Process Thought, Latino/a Theologies, Constructive Theologies, Postmodern Philosophies, Ecotheology, Mysticism, Pluralism, Gender Studies, and Women Religious Studies. Among her most recent publications are the essays “Border-Crossing and Exile,” in Cross Currents; and “The Eros of Intersubjective Becomings,” in Seeking Common Ground (A festschrift for Joseph Bracken). She has co-authored “A Proximity of Love” with Stephanie M. Crumpton, published in Perspectivas; and “Where Are the Pentecostals in an Age of Empire?” with Dale T. Irvin, published in Evangelicals and Empire. Forthcoming are her book A Passionate God, to be published by Fordham University Press, and a co-edited three-volume project with Peter C. Phan, Theology and Migration in World Christianity to be published by Palgrave MacMillan. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion where she is on the Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities, and a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America. She is currently serving at the Governing Board of the Hispanic Summer Program, and is a member of the Board of the International Foundation for Ewha Woman’s University. Padilla is a member of the Riverside Church in New York.