is the founder and president of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy (USA) that works to build trust between religious  and ideological rivals. He is the author of Converting the Saints: A Study of Religious Rivalry in America and numberous artlices on methods for collaborative contestation of fundamental beliefs. He has produced several documentary films including Us and Them: Religious Rivalry in Amercia. He has lectured and orgainzed dialogues in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He received a B.S. from Brigham Young U. in social psychology (1970), an MBA from Harvard U. (1972), and after a  sixteen year career  in commercial real estate, a Ph.D. at the U. of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought (2000). He has served as a lay bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is a director on several business and philanthropic boards. He has five children and sixteen grandchildren.