Godfrey J. Ellis
About Godfrey J. Ellis
Godfrey J. Ellis was born in Plymouth, England, and raised in Vancouver, Canada, and then Los Angeles, California, before returning to Vancouver. He served as a missionary in the France Paris Mission and returned to Brigham Young University where he earned his BA in French and an MA in Family Relations. He completed his PhD in Family Sociology and Social Psychology from Washington State University. He then served as a professor of Family Relations or of Psychology in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Lacey, Washington, during a career of 41 years. For 34 of those years he also served as a marriage and family therapist in private practice. During those years, he taught in both France and China and published articles in the Ensign magazine (now Liahona) and BYU Studies along with publishing various articles and books. At the time of his retirement, he was serving as the director of the master’s program in Counseling Psychology and the chair of a Department of Leadership and Counseling Psychology. In his very happy retirement, he published several articles in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship and became a reviewer for the journal. He currently serves as an executive editor. His latest book is Into Arabia: Anchoring Nephi’s Account in the Real World (with Warren Aston and Neal Rappleye). He also enjoys painting acrylic portraits of friends, missionaries, and family (see GodfreyEllisArt.com). He and his wife are blessed with four sons and four daughters-in-law, fourteen grandchildren, four grandchildren-in-law, and four great-grandchildren.
