Richard is founder, past pres­i­dent and cur­rent team mem­ber of Ren­o­varé. Hav­ing stud­ied at George Fox and Fuller The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary, Fos­ter has served as a pas­tor and taught world­wide on spir­i­tu­al for­ma­tion. Author of dozens of arti­cles and six books, includ­ing Cel­e­bra­tion of Dis­ci­pline, Richard con­tin­ues to write on the spir­i­tu­al life. He and his wife, Car­olynn, have two grown chil­dren, Joel and Nathan, nine grand­chil­dren, and live near Den­ver, Colorado.

Julia Roller is an author, edi­tor, and speak­er. Her books include Mom Seeks God, A Year with God (with Richard J. Fos­ter), A Year with Aslan, and 25 Books Every Chris­t­ian Should Read. Julia has spo­ken to dozens of women’s and MOPS groups all over south­ern Cal­i­for­nia and is cur­rent­ly the MOPS coor­di­na­tor at Point Loma Com­mu­ni­ty Pres­by­ter­ian Church. Her writ­ing has appeared in Today’s Chris­t­ian Woman, The San Fran­cis­co Chron­i­cle, Group, Rev!, and Children’s Min­istry. She lives in San Diego, Cal­i­for­nia with her hus­band, three chil­dren, and minia­ture dachs­hund, where she can usu­al­ly be found dri­ving some­one to a sports field, burn­ing the gar­lic bread, or turn­ing socks the right way out at the wash­ing machine. www​.juliaroller​.com