Rodger K. Bufford Ph.D. is a professor and former Chairperson of the Graduate School of Clinical Psychology at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon with over 50 years of teaching experience. He has authored two books and numerous articles on psychological trauma, psychological ethics, and psychology and religion/spirituality. His research interests include theoretical and empirical psychology of religion, spiritual well well-being and grace as pathways to thriving and well-being, and the traumatic effects of human and natural disasters. He has contributed significantly to study of spiritual well-being and developed measures of the experience of grace and natural disaster. A licensed Psychologist (OR 526), Dr. Bufford has practiced part time for over 50 years.