Charles Randall Paul was raised in New Jersey, USA. He has a BS in social-psychology from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Harvard University. After a decade of work as an award winning commercial real estate developer, he received a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, writing a dissertation on methods for respectfully contesting irresolvable ideological conflicts. He has published various papers and a book on American religious conflicts.

He is the founder and president of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy that aims to build trust and good will between religious critics and rivals. He has produced a documentary film on religious rivalry in America. He has lectured and organized Heart & Mind Conversations in Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and China. He is the creator of a way of engagement called The Way of Openness. He was co-founder of The World Table PBC, a software-as-a-service company that developed a safer public engagement system for public websites.

He has served as a lay pastor for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He currently serves on the board of several business and professional organizations. Married for over 53 years, he has five children and sixteen grandchildren. His personal interests include social conflict theory, comparative theology, urban design, and alpine sports.

John W. Morehead is on the board has engaged in intra- and interreligious dialogue and diplomacy for over twenty years. He holds an M.A. from Salt Lake Theological Seminary, an adjunct professor at Multnomah Biblical Seminary, William Jessup University and is an independent researcher, writer, and host of the Multifaith Matters podcast. His conversations with Muslims, Latter-day Saints, Pagans, Satanists, and other groups have built remarkable bridges with Evangelical Christians and others. His ongoing research in interreligious conflict involves bringing social psychology and neuroscience into conversation with a theology of love of religious neighbors. Areas of interest include emotions and orthopathy, the psychology of trust-building, and the cognitive science and biocultural study of religion. He is the co-editor and contributing author for A Charitable Orthopathy: Christian Perspectives on Emotions in Multifaith Engagement, and Encountering New Religious Movements: A Holistic Evangelical Approach, and the editor of Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue.