Os Guinness
Senior Fellow,Trinity Forum
Dr. Os Guinness is Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum in McLean, VA--a seminar-style forum for senior executives and political leaders that engages the leading ideas of our day in the context of faith
Born in China where his parents were medical missionaries, he remained there until 1951 when forced to leave by the communists. Educated in England, he did undergraduate studies at the University of London, and postgraduate studies at University of Oxford where he graduated with a D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College.
Since 1984, he has lived in the Washington, DC area, where he was a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and at the Brookings Institution. From 1986-89 Dr. Guinness was the Executive Director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation and one othe drafters of the Williamsburg Charter. Os Guinness has written or edited more than 12 books with his latest appearing this year titled Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype, and Spin.
His first book, The Dust Of Death (1973, revised 1994), is a critique of counterculture. His second, In Two Minds (1975) was recently rewritten as God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt (Crossway, 1996). His third book, The Gravedigger File (1983), is an examination of the social and cultural forces shaping religion in the late twentieth century. He is the co-editor of Articles of Faith, Articles of Peace (1990) and No Good But God: Breaking With the Idols of Our Age (Moody Press, 1992). One of his recent books is The American Hour, an analysis of the United States toward the close of the American Century, published by the Free Press in October 1992. He is also the author of Dining with the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity (Baker, 1993) and Fit Bodies, Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals DonŐt Think and What to Do About It (Baker, 1994). His current book is The Call (Word, 1998).
