Patrick Mason is a professor of religious studies and history at Utah State University, where he holds the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture.  He is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st-Century World and Proclaim Peace: The Restoration’s Answer to an Age of Conflict (co-authored with David Pulsipher).  He lives in Logan, Utah, with his wife Melissa and their four children.