James McLachlan is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Western Carolina University. He is author of books and articles on Personalism and the problem of evil including: "The Desire to be God: Freedom and the Other in Sartre and Berdyaev"; and most recently, the articles: "Mormonism and the Problem of Evil"; "Mystic Terror and Metaphysical Rebels: Active Evil and Active Love in Schelling and Dostoevsky"; "Satan: Romantic Hero or Just Another Asshole: The Desire to be God, The Devil, and the Demonic"; "Hell Is Others and Paradise Is Others: Hell in the Existential Paris of Sartre and Berdyaev"; and, "The il y a and the Ungrund: Levinas and the Russian Existentialists Berdyaev and Shestov." He is co-director of the Levinas Summer Seminar and co-founder and co-organizer of the Personalist Seminar. He has known Thomas Buford since 1990. Tom has mentored him since then and helped him discover he was a personalist. James Beauregard is a Lecturer and Faculty in the Psy.D. program at Rivier University, Nashua, New Hampshire, where he teaches Neuropsychology, Biological Bases of Behavior, Educational Neuroscience, and Aging. His research interests are in the fields of neuroethics and personalist philosophy including the intersection of these two areas as they impact our understandings of personhood. He is a member of the British Personalist Forum and the International Neuroethics Society. Richard C. Prust lives in Chapel Hill, NC, where he works on a book on personal identity in moral and legal reasoning and teaches part-time in Duke's continuing education program. He is active in the International Forum on Persons. Before retiring from full-time teaching, he taught philosophy at St. Andrews University in North Carolina. His book, Wholeness: the Character Logic of Christian Belief, is published by Rodopi Press.