Everett Worthington is professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is also a licensed Clinical Psychologist in Virginia. He has published over 20 books and over 200 articles and scholarly chapters, mostly on forgiveness, marriage, and family topics. He frequently discusses forgiveness, marriage, and family in media. He became interested in forgiveness through his practice in couple counseling, and he began conducting research on forgiveness in 1990. He focused his early research on forgiveness and reconciliation in couples and families, and that interest continues to date. He also has developed and studied the effectiveness of psychoeducational groups in secular milieus to help people deal with unforgiveness across a variety of relationships within the same group. From 1998 to 2005, he directed A Campaign for Forgiveness Research (www.forgiving.org), a non-profit organization that supports research into forgiving. He works to build a field of studying forgiveness scientifically. The Campaign is now under a new director who is focusing on dissemination of the findings.