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Volume 1 , Number 25 A Good News Ventures publication March 23 , 2017
Author Guinness to receive doctorate from Taylor
Os Guinness , speaker , Christian apologist , religious rights advocate , and the author of more than 20 books that include A Free People ’ s Suicide and Time for Truth , will be awarded an honorary doctorate by Taylor University officials during ceremonies next week .
Guinness will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters , honoris causa , during the chapel hour at 10:00 a . m ., Wednesday , March 29 , in the Rediger Chapel / Auditorium on the Taylor campus .
Os Guinness is an author and social critic . Greatgreat-great grandson of Arthur Guinness , the Dublin brewer , he was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries . A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949 , he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England . He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D . Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College , Oxford .
Os has written or edited more than thirty books , including The Call , Time for Truth , Long Journey Home , Unspeakable , A Free People ’ s Suicide , The Global Public Square , and Renaissance . His latest book is Fool ’ s Talk – The Recovery of Christian Persuasion , which was published by InterVarsity Press in June , 2015 .
Before moving to the United States in 1984 , Os was a freelance reporter with the BBC . Since then he has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International
Studies , a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution , and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum and the EastWest Institute in New York . From 1986 to 1989 , Os served as Executive Director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation , a bicentennial celebration of the First Amendment . In this position he helped to draft “ The Williamsburg Charter ” and later “ The Global Charter
Os Guinness is an author and social critic . Great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness , the Dublin brewer , he was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries .
of Conscience ,” which was published at the European Union Parliament in 2012 . Os has spoken at dozens of the world ’ s major universities , and spoken widely to political and business conferences on many issues , including religious freedom , across the world . He is currently a senior fellow at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics in Oxford , though he still lives with his wife Jenny in the Washington , DC , area .
Guinness completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his Doctor of Philosophy ( D . Phil ) in the social sciences from Oriel College , Oxford .
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