Boundless Webzine

About Us

The time between the home of your youth and the home you'll make for yourself someday is a time of adventure, discovery and excitement; but also loneliness, longing and uncertainty.

From college to career to relationships, we at Boundless want to cast a vibrant vision for the single years, helping you navigate this season while preparing for the challenges and responsibilities of the one to come. That requires living intentionally with purpose by bringing your gifts, talents and Christian worldview to bear on your whole life.

Our contributing authors are renowned journalists, scholars and thinkers from around the globe who are here to help you enjoy the journey.

Send your thoughts and suggestions to: editor@boundless.org.

We read every e-mail that is sent to us, but regret that we just aren't able to answer it all. Letters may be edited for clarity and conciseness if we reprint them on the website or blog. Please let us know if you do not wish your letter to be published or if you want us to withold your name.

You may also write us at:

Focus on the Family
Colorado Springs, CO 80995

More contact information, including our counseling department, is available here.

Write For Us

We don't typically publish unsolicited articles, but we are always open to considering new writers. If you think you've got what it takes to have your work published on Boundless, please feel free to send us a sample or two of your writing, as well as a proposal of what you're interested in writing about.

Please review our Author Guidelines before e-mailing us.

As we noted in the section above this one, we regret that we're unable to personally respond to every e-mail that we receive.

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Staff

Ted Slater is the current editor of Boundless, having moved from Virginia in 2005 to join the team. Since helping Steve and Candice Watters launch their first webzine some 10 years ago, Ted has immersed himself in the worlds of website design and software development, meeting with clients in such exotic places as Europe, Asia, and San Francisco. Perhaps driven by his insecurities, he has stayed in school longer than the normal adult, earning bachelor's degrees in English and Spanish and master's degrees in International Communication and Education (with an emphasis in ESL). Highlights of the past 10 years include being webmaster and keyboard player for Joshua Harris's New Attitude conferences, courting and marrying his sweetheart Ashleigh, and playing with his daughters.

Motte Brown is the Family Formation Ministry manager for Focus on the Family. His own family formation story began with a beautiful young woman named Beth, a United States Senate Chaplain, and the phrase "fish or cut bait." He fished, and now has two children with one on the way — from China. Before joining Focus, Motte served as a Vice President in a DC area pro-life ministry and in the legislative and projects offices for a United States Senator.

Steve Watters is the Director of Young Adults for Focus on the Family. He grew up in historic Washington, N.C. and attended college at Lee University in Tennessee. He met his wife, Candice, at Regent University in Virginia Beach where as a couple they cultivated a passion for family formation. Shortly after graduating from Regent, they headed out west to work at Focus on the Family. In 1998, Steve and Candice worked together to launch Boundless. Since that time, he has launched CitizenLink.org, PureIntimacy.org and TroubledWith.com as outreaches for Focus on the Family. Steve is the proud father of three kids.

Our graphic designer, Michael Heath, graduated from the fine arts program at Colorado State University in 2000 with a BFA in graphic design. He explored everything from corporate identity to photography, settling somewhere in between as a designer at a small firm in Colorado Springs. His love for drawing and photography always come through in his design work. He currently works full-time for Breakaway magazine (a magazine for teen guys), and part-time for Boundless. He loves his work, though his wife and daughter are what he's truly passionate about. You can find his work at www.magnus-creative.com

Regular Contributing Authors

Thabiti Anyabwile is the full-time husband to a loving wife, Kristie, and father to two adorable daughters, Afiya and Eden. He serves as senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands and worked previously as an assistant pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church. Thabiti holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in psychology from North Carolina State University. A former high school basketball coach and bookstore owner, Thabiti loves preaching, reading, sports, and watching sci-fi films.

David Barshinger is married to Allison, who he met in junior high camp—sometimes summer romances do work out! Recently he graduated with a Master of Theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary, where he spent the past three years. With six moves under their belt in six years of marriage, they’ve left the Texas sun for the northern states and are hoping to have fewer moves in the years ahead, especially with their son in tow. David has developed a fascination with theology and church history and believes that looking at the development of the church through the centuries helps us understand the Christian’s relationship with our world today.

Scott Croft has served as the Chairman of the elders at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, where he wrote and teaches the Courtship & Dating CORE Seminar. Scott and his wife, Rachel live in the Washington, D.C. area, where he is also a practicing attorney. They are expecting their first child in March.

Drew Dyck lives in Lake Mary, Florida with his wife Grace, where he works as an editor for the Christian men's magazine, New Man. In his spare time Drew loves to play basketball, write articles (especially for boundless!), and peruse the theology section of book stores. You can e-mail Drew at dyckdrew@hotmail.com.

Suzanne Hadley is associate editor of Clubhouse and Clubhouse Jr. magazines, but she loves writing for big kids, too. A graduate of Multnomah Bible College, her passions include the Bible, theology, people, drama and coffee. Suzanne moved from Washington state to Colorado five years ago, exchanging rain, good drivers and ocean views for sun, ski bums and an outdoor fixation. Having carefully avoided exercise most of her life, she now has five 5K races and two 10Ks under her belt. "It's a sickness," she says. Suzanne continues to claim 1 Timothy 4:12 as her life verse and believes young adults have a responsibility to set an example to believers — both in their personal lives and their involvement in the church.

Matt Kaufman has heard the saying "don't talk about religion and politics," but he's never bought it ("that's all the good stuff," he says). He started writing letters to the local newspaper at 16, but chafed under the 300-word limit. A few years later co-founded the conservative student paper Illini Review at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (his home town). He spent several years as an associate editor at Citizen magazine as well as a Boundless columnist, and he was editor of Boundless from April 2002 through August 2003. His favorite thing about writing online? "You can write as many words as you want, as long as you figure people will keep reading 'em."

Heather Koerner is an Okie, and proud of it — though she's from Owasso, not Muskogee. She and her husband Kevin strayed to a few other states in their early days of marriage, but are now back in God's country with their two kids, Madison and Andy. She has been an educator and an editor, and now combines the two by freelance writing. Besides, it's the only career that fits into nap times. She writes a monthly money column for Boundless aided by the fact that she has been diagnosed with an irrational fear of borrowing money, also known as debtophobia.

A Duke graduate, Michael Lawrence received a Master of Divinity degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a doctorate in Church History at Cambridge University. He and his wife, Adrienne, have four children: Michael, Christian, Samuel, and Sarah. He currently serves as an Associate Pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.

Carolyn McCulley is the author of Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? Trusting God with a Hope Deferred, a contributor to Sex and the Supremacy of Christ, edited by John Piper and Justin Taylor, and a blogger at Solo Femininity. She has a fun job as a video producer for Sovereign Grace Ministries, based in Gaithersburg, MD, which means she gets to travel a lot to document God's grace at work in His people. Carolyn studied at the City of London Polytechnic (England) and received her B.S. in journalism from the University of Maryland. She loves being a homeowner because she can throw fun dinner parties, but she regrets her lack of carpentry and repair skills. More importantly, she is the proud aunt of six adorable nieces and nephews.

Roberto Rivera y Carlo is a fellow at the Wilberforce Forum at Prison Fellowship. What is a fellow? It's kind of like the degree that the scarecrow received from the Wizard of Oz: a title conferred on someone who is supposed to "think deep thoughts." When he is not being a fellow or writing for Boundless , Roberto is contributing editor to Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, and is a regular contributor to Sojourners. Prior to all of this, Roberto practiced tax law and then went to seminary. Most of all, Roberto is David's dad.

Jenny Schroedel relishes walks with her two daughtes through the University of Chicago's gothic campus, where her husband John is a campus chaplain and a Ph.D. student in biomedical ethics. At home, she putters in the kitchen and on her laptop computer and manages to check approximately two times a second. Because she's been without television for the past 10 years, she takes unusual delight in NPR, especially Ira Glass' "This American Life." After countless hours spent listening to the radio, Jenny made her own radio debut in 2006 on quite a different show — a national program called "Come Receive the Light." Jenny's glad she's on the radio instead of the television, but she fears that her lackluster fashion habits may one day warrant an intervention on "What Not To Wear." Visit her online at www.jenschroedel.com.

Gary Thomas is the founder and director of the Center for Evangelical Spirituality, a writing and speaking ministry that integrates Scripture, church history, and the Christian classics. A teacher and author, Thomas' work includes the excellent book, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy (Zondervan, 2000).

As the bumper sticker on his neighbor's car reads, John Thomas is "American by birth, Southerner by the grace of God." Except for a semester detour in Louisiana and two-and-a-half years at Denver Seminary, John was educated entirely by the state schools of Arkansas. Despite this, he's learned to write and speak so well that some people actually pay him to do so. He has a bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Arkansas and a master's degree in Philosophy of Religion, Ethics and Apologetics from Denver Seminary. He lives in Little Rock with his wife Alfie, son Jake and daughter Audrey. If you would like John to come speak to your church or college group, he'll do anything for a quiet night's sleep. Contact Boundless for information.

Candice Watters is the author of Get Married: What Women Can Do to Help it Happen from Moody Publishers. She founded Boundless in 1998 and served as editor till 2002. Now a stay-at-home mom, she writes regularly for the site about courtship and dating, getting married and starting a family. Additionally, she answers questions from readers in "Boundless Answers: Women," a bi-weekly advice column. Candice is married to Steve Watters, Director of Young Adults for Focus on the Family. They have three children. Write her at candice@helpgetmarried.com.