Christian Doctor’s Digest – April 2017

Os Guinness, DPhil, is a prolific writer, speaker and social critic. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including Fool’s Talk, Renaissance, A Free People’s Suicide, Unspeakable, The Call, Time for Truth and The Case for Civility. Guinness was previously a freelance reporter with the BBC, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies. Born in China to missionary parents, he is the great-great-great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer. A prominent social critic, Guinness is the founder of the Trinity Forum and was senior fellow there until 2004, conducting seminars for leaders around the world and publishing seven major curricula. He has been a frequent speaker and seminar leader at political and business conferences in both Europe and the United States. His countless addresses at leading universities worldwide have helped to influence an entire generation of thinkers. Guinness has had a lifelong passion to make sense of our extraordinary modern world and to stand between the worlds of scholarship and ordinary life, helping each to understand the other—particularly when advanced modern life touches on the profound issues of faith. He lives with his wife Jenny in McLean, Virginia.