Jennifer S. Ripley (PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University) is professor of psychology, Hughes Professor of Christian Thought and Mental Health, and codirector of the Charis Institute at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is lead editor of Ministering to Families in Crisis and coauthor of Couple Therapy: A New Hope-Focused Approach.

Everett L. Worthington Jr. (PhD, University of Missouri) is Commonwealth Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and former executive director of the Templeton Foundation's A Campaign for Forgiveness Research. He was the founding editor of Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal and is the author of seventeen books including Handbook of Forgiveness, Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling, and Forgiving and Reconciling.