Dale & Jonalyn Fincher are gifted communicators, passionate apologists, and cultural critics, addressing thousands every year with their clarity and creativity.

Jonalyn is a passionate apologist and cultural critic committed to helping others become more appropriately human.

She and her husband Dale travel nationally as a husband-wife speaking team addressing schools, churches, camps, and conferences on behalf of their non-profit, Soulation (www.soulation.org). With a double Bachelor's in literature and history from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Talbot School of Theology, Jonalyn engages with her clarity, gentleness and storytelling, stirring audiences of all ages to love Jesus. Her expressive teaching style makes her presentations both refreshingly appealing and accessible.

For the last five years Jonalyn has been speaking and writing on how women are distinctly and fully made in God's image. Her work has appeared in Kyria, Marriage Partnership, Gifted for Leadership, Radiant, Fullfill, Today's Christian Woman, UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity, and more recently Apologetics for a New Generation. Her first book Ruby Slippers: How the Soul of a Woman Brings Her Home (Zondervan, 2007) offers a defense for women's uniqueness and dignity. Her first book with Dale, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk, will debut April 2010 (Zondervan). She regularly updates her blog (www.jonalynfincher.com) sharing her insights about women and the soul.

Jonalyn and Dale love to ski together and hike with their three Welsh Corgis in their hometown of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. They have recently moved into an 800 square foot cabin in the Rocky Mountains that affords them more time to observe the aspen and write. They eagerly anticipate the arrival of their firstborn in February.

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— updated September 24, 2009

Dale is a cultural creative, author and national speaker. As co-founder of the husband/wife Soulation (www.soulation.org) team, Dale layers together apologetics, soul formation, and imagination, engaging thousands yearly on what it means to be appropriately human.

Dale's gifts for leadership emerged in his late teens, working as counselor and program director at summer camp in New Hampshire. From there, Dale's college years landed him into lead roles in the theatre and eventually serving as student body president for two consecutive years. After receiving a master's in the performing arts, Dale worked at a theatre in Vancouver, BC, and studied at Regent College before deciding for Los Angeles to receive his second master's in philosophy of religion and ethics (Talbot School of Theology, Biola Univ). For three years, Dale wrote and spoke on Ravi Zacharias' itinerant team, before launching Soulation in the Spring of 2005.

Through his growing up years, Dale traveled extensively with his family, gaining insights into the cultural diversity, peoples and histories of the world. His mother was a flight instructor and often piloted him and his sister to remote regions of the Caribbean. Professionally, Dale has spoken around the nation and internationally, including Singapore, Albania, and Peru. Today his primary emphasis is American culture, engaging the ideas of his homeland and bringing Jesus into the public square.

His book, Living with Questions (YS/Zondervan, 2007), conversationally addresses today's hottest questions with a new approach to apologetics. His work is also featured in Apologetics for a New Generation (Harvest House, 2009). You can find his ongoing musings on culture and life at www.dalefincher.com. Dale makes his home in Steamboat Springs, CO, along with his wife and partner in ministry, Jonalyn Grace Fincher. His new book, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk, co-written with Jonalyn, will be released this winter.

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— updated June 10, 2009



If you need photos of Dale or Jonalyn for your promotional material, a variety of pictures and their credits are available here: promo pics.



David Holman - Graphic Designer

David is an art director and communication designer 'working' out of an Edenic valley in Southern Oregon. By night he consults with companies like Soulation in which he wholeheartedly believes. By day he answers to the whims of the corporation that puts food on his table. He does it all for the love of God and family.



Jeff LeFever - Photographer

Jeff turns his artistic eye through the lens of a camera. He has a way of helping you see things often overlooked, reaching into the meaningful tension of darkness and light in the sacred human experience. Trained and experienced as an illustrator and a fine artist, he finances his excursions into humanity through patronage from friends for photo-essay projects and through his commercial photography (seen and hired at www.lefeverphotography.com). Jeff’s bases his operation out of Laguna Beach, CA, and continues pushing into the depths of beauty, the Divine, and human experience, capturing art as it happens.



Bill Moore - Webmaster

Bill has over 20 years experience as a software engineer. In addition to mastering Soulation’s website, Bill works full time as a software engineer, co-leads a home group in his church, and serves as vice president of his local Jeep club. His family knows him as a man with a unique mix of compassion and youthful enthusiasm for all things philosophical, relational and mechanical. He and Robin, his wife of 26 years, live, work and play hard near Seattle, WA. He enjoys doing projects with his two adult sons and engaging in serious discussions with his toddler grandson, Benjamin, and the puppet, Mr. Fox. Bill loves reading J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, preferably while backpacking.



Dodd Morris - Audio Editor

Dodd is the Director of HIS KIDS RADIO, a full-time Christian station for the young (and the young @ heart). An outreach of Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, MI, HIS KIDS RADIO has been on-the-air sharing faith & fun with families for over 20 years. Dodd enjoys many different aspects of his role, including on-air hosting, audio production, forming strategic alliances, and web development (www.HisKids.net). Dodd is currently the chairman of the board for CBH Ministries. He and his wife, Tami, have four kids and serve together in their church’s music and children’s ministries.



Ellyn Myller - Administrative Assistant

A gifted teacher, Ellyn, has professionally lead children's work in three churches. Originally from Minnesota, she's been actively engaged in her mountain community for 12 years. Her many hats include her work at Soulation, wife of a city councilmember, mother of three (two daughters and a son), culinary extraordinaire, home-school teacher and focused friend. She's actively developed a philosophy of parenting, walking alongside her kids, freeing them to be on their own journeys and living with their own questions. This may be why her favorite piece of Facebook Flair reads, "It’s called thinking... go with it." She dreams of the day when she will have abundant time to read, sing, and paint. This year she celebrates 21 years married to her husband, Scott. They make their home in Steamboat Springs, CO.



Joaquin Valdez - Web Programmer

Joaquin enjoys developing the Soulation website as well as serving at his local Church in several areas: Accounting, Head Usher, Junior High, Pastoral Care and Men's Ministries. Joaquin is married to Jamie, a nurse, who is a member of the worship team. They have two great kids, Kelseigh and Simon, and live in Oregon.



Michael Ames - Marketing and Development Consultant

Michael works with Soulation as a consultant to our online communication and development strategies. He and Dale have been friends since their college days. Just like when they were student body officers together, Michael continues to do the work that allows Dale to both look good and take all the credit. Michael spent nine years in the world of Christian camping where he worked in both promotion and program development. He currently works in a product and strategy development role for a fundraising, technology company. He lives in Dallas with his wife, Jennifer, their four young children, and their yellow lab, Digory.



Trevor Klingenmeier - Video Editor

Trever is a native Southern Californian married with a son and baby on the way. Trever graduated from Biola University with a music degree and, for five years, taught music and math. While serving at his home church of Whittier Area Community Church, Trever developed a devoted interest in video editing and returned to school for professional certification in editing. He has now been editing professionally for four years, working primarily on promotional videos for a variety of clients.



Eric Nielsen - Software Developer

Involved in computing since a young age, Eric is a software developer driven to find solutions for technological challenges. He enjoys reading technical documents, learning new development technologies, playing video games, and spending time @ home in Ohio with his loving wife, Dana.