Brett Kunkle

Brett is the founder and president of MAVEN. He has more than 25 years of experience working with junior high, high school, and college students, as a youth pastor and as the Student Impact Director at Stand to Reason. Brett was an associate editor for the Apologetics Study Bible for Students, wrote the Ambassadors Guide to Mormonism and co-authored A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today’s World. He received his bachelors degree in Christian education from Biola University and his masters degree in philosophy of religion and ethics from Talbot School of Theology.

Erin Kunkle

Erin Kunkle is a full-time stay-at-home homeschooling mom of five.  She has a bachelors degree in sociology with an emphasis in political science from Biola University. She has served in a variety of church ministry positions, from junior high and high school ministry to women’s ministry and children’s ministry leadership, and co-hosts the MAVEN parenting podcast alongside Brett.

Dr. Doug Groothuis

Dr. Douglas Groothuis has fire in his bones for the Christian message and many irons in the fire to explain, defend, and apply it. He has been explaining the world to the church and explaining the church to the world for nearly fifty years through his teaching, preaching, writing, mentoring, and general witness. His passion is to take to the streets the truth and significance of the Christian worldview for all of life. To that end, he publishes both academic and popular works, preaches in churches, gives public lectures, engages in debates, and has appeared on hundreds of radio programs and podcasts since 1983. He is known as a knowledgeable, sharp, forceful, but gentle communicator of the Christian message.