Ruth Alex Mitchell (née Beale, 23 February 1947 – 26 November 2010) was a British journalist who was the "editor and driving force behind the Christian current affairs magazine Third Way".

[4] She switched to a monthly circulation, cut costs, enlisted help from a team of volunteers and "brought the magazine back from the brink of closure.

[1][8] From the United States she attracted such diverse contributors as Jim Wallis, founder of the radical movement Sojourners and Chuck Colson, the Watergate scandal conspirator who became a Christian and founded the Prison Fellowship.

[2] Dr John Stott, an important leader in world Evangelicalism, said during her editorship that "Third Way is becoming indispensable reading for those who want to think Christianly about contemporary issues.

[2][4] For ten years, she was the volunteer administrator of the many Alpha courses, which introduce people to the basics of the Christian faith, run by Washington's Fourth Presbyterian Church.