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

Jonalyn is an 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 why following Jesus makes sense for women in the 21st century.

Her most recent writing, contributing to “Every Day Matters” Bible will be published by Hendrickson in partnership with Christianity Today International in the fall of 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 "Marriage Partnership", "Gifted for Leadership", "Radiant", "Fullfill", "Today’s Christian Woman", UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity, Apologetics for a New Generation and the video series Real Women, Real Faith: Life-Changing Stories from the Bible for Women Today (Zondervan Video, 2010). Her first book Ruby Slippers: How the Soul of a Woman Brings Her Home offers a defense for women’s uniqueness and dignity.

She regularly 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 musing on being a mother of a one year old.

Jonalyn loves baby-wearing her son, Finn, on stage, in coffee shops and through the woods in her hometown of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. For fun she likes to watercolor, read and watch 30Rock and MadMen.

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— updated February 12, 2011

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, storytelling 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, giving sturdy answers to seekers and leaders, and nurturing those who want to grow.

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) and several others. His most recent book, co-authored with Jonalyn Fincher is Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk – a fresh approach to helping your neighbor see Jesus. You can find his daily blog on being a first year dad at FirstYearDad.com.

Dale makes his home in Steamboat Springs, CO, with his wife and son, Jonalyn and Finn.

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— updated January 12, 2011



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



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.



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 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.



Mandy Orozco - Grant Writer

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.



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.