The Contributors to Five Paths to the Love of Your Life

Lauren F. Winner is the author of Girl Meets God: A Memoir, Mudhouse Sabbath, and Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity . Girl Meets God was selected for the Discover Great New Writers program at Barnes and Noble and won the Logos award for Best Book on Christianity and Culture. Lauren is a contributing editor to Christianity Today magazine and has written for periodicals ranging from Books and Culture: A Christian Review to The New York Times Book Review. She and her husband, Griff, reside in Durham, North Carolina.

Douglas Wilson is a senior fellow of theology at New St. Andrews College. He has written multiple books, including Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning , Reforming Marriage , Her Hand in Marriage, and Mother Kirk. He is the editor of the bimonthly magazine Credenda/Agenda and is one of the founders of Logos School in Moscow, Idaho. Douglas is a frequent speaker at conferences dealing with Christian education, where he often addresses the topics of masculinity, femininity, dating, and courtship. Douglas has been married for twenty-seven years. He and his wife, Nancy, have three grown children and five grandchildren.

Dr. Rick Holland is the pastor of College and Student Ministries at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, and is an instructor at The Master's College and Seminary. Rick is a regular conference speaker, both nationally and internationally, and preaches weekly to a ministry of over one thousand collegians. His essay in this volume is a snapshot of a book he is writing on romance and relationships. Rick and his wife, Kim, have three sons.

Jonathan Lindvall and his wife, Connie, have been married since 1976 and homeschool their six children in Springville, California. Jonathan is president of Bold Christian Living and administrator of Christian Pilgrims Schools, International, a homeschool ministry. He speaks at various conferences and presents Bold Christian Youth Seminars and Bold Parenting Seminars, as well as the New Testament House Church Seminar in the U.S. and internationally. His focus is on the relationship between godly families and New Testament churches.

Jeramy and Jerusha Clark have served in youth ministry for a combined twenty years. After meeting at The First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton, where the Clarks both served in youth ministry, they moved to Monument, Colorado, where they ministered at Tri-Lakes Chapel. Currently, Jeramy, Jerusha, and their two children live in Escondido, California, where Jeramy pastors several hundred high school students at Emmanuel Faith Community Church. They have coauthored three books on relationships: I Gave Dating a Chance ; He's HOT, She's HOT; and DTR: Define the Relationship. Their fourth book, After You Drop Them Off: A Parents' Guide to Student Ministries, will be available in August 2005.

Alex Chediak is an apprentice at The Bethlehem Institute under Pastor John Piper and Tom Steller at Bethlehem Baptist Church. He hopes to pursue a ministry aimed at church-based adult Christian education and training, building bridges between seminaries and churches, and writing on culturally relevant topics from a God-centered perspective. Having married in 2004, he resides in Roseville, Minnesota with his wife Marni. Marni recently gave birth to their first child, Karis Joy. In September of 2006, Alex will become an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota (having previously served part-time). He teaches courses in physics and engineering while also advising students. Alex previously earned a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from U.C. Berkeley in May 2004.