Dr John Trent

Dr. John Trent is the President and Founder of StrongFamilies.com and The Center for StrongFamilies. His daughter, Kari Trent Stageberg serves alongside him in their ministry to help strengthen God-honoring, attachment-centered relationships. A nationally known marriage and family speaker and author, Dr. Trent regularly speaks at conferences and keynote events at counseling and professional conferences, for churches, in corporate America, and for several branches of our military across the country and world. 

Trent served for 5 years as the Gary D. Chapman Chair of Marriage and Family Ministry and Therapy at Moody Theological Seminary. He was Moody’s first endowed chair in their 129 year history. His focus there was teaching clinical mental health graduate students in marriage and family. Today he teaches Ph.D., D.Min. and M.Div. students at Dallas Theological Seminary and Phoenix Seminary, in marriage and family therapy and marriage and family ministry. . 

Dr. Trent has authored and co-authored more then 26 books, including seventeen that have won writing awards, like the ECPA Gold Medallion, 2 million copy best-selling book, The Blessing. As of 2021, there were combined, more than 4,000,000 copies of all his adult and children's books in print, in eleven different languages. As a writer, Dr. Trent has been nominated for the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association’s Gold Medallion Award for excellence in writing 17 times, winning 14 Silver Medallions and 3 Gold Medallion awards for excellence in Christian publishing. 

Dr. Trent has married to his wife, Cynthia, for 43 years. They live in Scottsdale, Arizona and have two grown daughters and two grandchildren.