SquareTwo has been on the minds of several of the editors for some time. For the senior editor, the thought of an LDS journal of serious scholarship began about a decade ago, but the domain name for SquareTwo was only obtained in 2005. It was not until the summer of 2008 that the effort needed to put together a first editorial team and also the website actually took place. Our manifesto, written by Richard Sherlock, is a good source for a more in-depth understanding of our purposes and aims. It is entitled, "SquareTwo and the Future of Mormon Thought."

In assembling the first editorial team, great care was taken to ensure strict gender parity, as well as parity between younger and older editors. We purposefully sought a diversity of life experiences among the editors, as well. All members of the editorial team are members in good standing in the LDS Church, in keeping with our purpose to develop a forum for the expression of a faithful LDS perspective on the important issues of the world today.

The editorial team of 2008-2010:

• Senior Editor: V. M. Hudson, Ph.D., political science/IR; Foreign Policy magazine's list of Top 100 Influential Global Thinkers, 2009.
• Richard Sherlock: Professor of Philosophy at Utah State University. Master of Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School. Ph.D Harvard Has taught at Northeastern University in Boston, University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, and was Professor of Moral Theology At Fordham University in New York. Many publications in moral Philosophy and theology, applied ethics, history of philosophy, philosophical theology and Mormon history.
• Ralph C. Hancock: husband of Julie, father (of 5) and grandfather, Ph.D. (Political Science), teaches political philosophy, examines interrelation of theory and practice (with the help of Aristotle, Tocqueville, Heidegger, Leo Strauss, Emmanuel Levinas).
• John Mark Mattox: Colonel in the United States Army and
  Commandant of the Defense Nuclear Weapons School, the U.S. Department of Defense's premier institution for nuclear weapons training.  He holds a BA from Brigham Young University, Master of Military Arts and Sciences degree from the United States Army Command and General Staff College, a Master of Strategic Studies degree from the United States Army War College, and MA and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from Indiana University.
• Janille Shumway Stearmer, wife; mother; BA, Art History and Architecture; BS, Emergency Services Management
• L. Hulet, MPA
• Thelma Young, Burma Partnership, currently living in Thailand
• R. Decker, doctoral student in economics at the University of Maryland-College Park