Dale & Jonalyn Fincher are gifted communicators, passionate apologists, and cultural critics, addressing thousands every year with their clarity and creativity.
Dale is an outspoken introvert, apologist, public speaker, storyteller and author. He has written two books, contributed to many more, and has been interviewed on radio around the nation. His ongoing essays are published on BreakfastReading and PositivelyHuman. And Dale is the visionary leader behind Soulation.
Dale is a husband and father, once worked on Ravi Zacharias' itinerant team before launching Soulation, and was a popular speaker on the preaching team at his former church in Laguna Beach. Dale holds a Masters in Philosophy of Religion from Talbot School of Theology. He loves C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, Annie Dillard, Rich Mullins, and especially resonates with the candor and wit of Malcolm Muggeridge. His Bachelors and MA in performing arts were earned at an undisclosed college which will be the topic of his memoir on spiritual abuse.
As an out-of-the-box thinker facing today's tough questions, Dale's areas of interest include translating Biblical truths and cultural ideas for everyday people, paying attention to our human experiences, performing poetry, Jewish views of Scripture, building healthy views of manliness (and marriage) which promote freedom for women. His engaging and dramatic style has been a favorite of live audiences around the country.
About those books: Dale’s first book, Living with Questions, is a unique guide for students (and adults) to learn Christain worldview in a personal and approachable way. His second, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk, which he co-authored with his wife, is a practical guide to talking about Jesus in an American culture steeped in mass-marketed spirituality. The first person to read this bio and tweet on twitter, "I read @dalefincher updated bio and want that free book! #soulation" will receive a free signed copy of either of these books.
Dale also likes jeeping and flyfishing, movies, and quiet contemplation. He makes his home with his wife and son, Jonalyn and Finn, in a magical forest in Steamboat Springs, CO.
Friend and follow Dale on facebook and twitter:
facebook.com/dalefincher | @dalefincher
— updated March 12, 2012
Jonalyn is a philosopher, cultural critic, wife and mother. She and her husband Dale travel nationally as a husband-wife speaking/writing team with their non-profit Soulation (soulation.org). With a double Bachelor’s in literature and history from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Philosophy from Biola University, Jonalyn loves talking about the God who loves broken, questioning men and women.
Jonalyn has been interviewed on issues of apologetics and womanhood by the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. Her most recent contributions to Every Day Matters Bible will be published by Hendrickson in partnership with Christianity Today International (Fall, 2012). Her book, Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk (Zondervan, 2010) co-written with her husband, Dale Fincher, explains how to talk about God in everyday life. Her work has been featured in UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity, Gifted for Leadership, Radiant, Fullfill, Today’s Christian Woman, Apologetics for a New Generation, Is God Just a Human Invention and the Zondervan DVD series Real Women, Real Faith: Life-Changing Stories from the Bible for Women Today.
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. She weekly updates her blogs: RubySlippers.org on the sparkly connection between faith, feminism and Christian womanhood, LetMeBeMe.org on women and friendship and SecondYearMom.com a nightly short meditation on being a mother.
Jonalyn loves baby-wearing her son, Finn, through the woods in her hometown of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Her perfect day would start with a French omelet and watercoloring, afternoon snowshoe with Finn and then warming up with tea, a good book and some solid writing, dinner at home with Dale and Finn and finally a great movie, Strictly Ballroom, alongside a generous slice of cheesecake.
Friend and follow Jonalyn on facebook and twitter:
facebook.com/jonalynfincher | @jonalynfincher
— updated February 17, 2012
If you need photos of Dale or Jonalyn for your promotional material, a variety of pictures and their credits are available here: promo pics.
Our Writing Team
Mandy Orozco - Director of Development
Mandy received her Bachelor's Degree in religious studies and English from the University of California, Los Angeles. For 10 years, Mandy has been working with nonprofits in areas of fund development and management. She has a passion for finding the right funding to help nonprofits further their impact. When she's not working with Soulation, Mandy is engaging in good conversation with her husband, chasing after her two boys, going for a run, or gardening at her home in Spokane, WA.
Michael Ames - Communications Advisor
Michael gives his time and resources to 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 promotions and program development. After spending time in a strategy development role for a fundraising company, he now directs operations for the communications agency, Wild Hair Media, he founded with a partner in 2011. He lives in Dallas with his wife, Jennifer, their four young children, and their yellow lab, Digory.
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.
Trever 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.
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 webmasters for 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 29 years, live, work and play hard near Seattle, WA. He enjoys doing projects with his two sons and playing with his three grandchildren. Bill loves reading J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, preferably while backpacking.
Dustin Anderson - Audio Engineer
Dustin's audio career began with his love of music and his touring band, The Tide, which unfolded into a degree in Audio Engineering at SAE Institute of Technology in Nashville. His audio work has led him to band recordings, creating original soundtracks, running live sound, engineering and producing audiobooks--including New York Times Bestsellers--and currently runs his own recording studio in Grand Rapids, MI, Featured Audio. In his free time, Dustin and his wife spend time hiking, camping, boating, playing tennis, and playing music together.
Heidi Snyder - Executive Assistant
Heidi is originally from a small town in Minnesota. After completing her Bachelor's Degree in Architecture at the University of Colorado, Boulder, she went on to serve four years as an officer in the Air Force. Married in 2006, she and her husband Jon eventually settled in Steamboat where Jon is a city engineer. Heidi worked as a project manager at an interior design firm for several years before taking this position with Soulation. They are actively involved in their local church community, led by their heart for other young couples with a desire to better connect them to each other and Jesus. Heidi enjoys summer gardening, amateur astronomy, and enjoying the beautiful Steamboat outdoors with her husband and friends.
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