Os Guinness

Os Guinness (born September 1941) is an Evangelical Christian author and social critic from England, who has made his home in the United States, since 1984.

Born on 30 September 1941 in China, to medical missionaries working there, Os Guinness is the great-great-great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer. He returned to England in 1951 for secondary school and eventual college.

Guinness received a B.D. (honours) from University of London in 1966 and a D.Phil. from Oriel College, Oxford in 1981.

Os Guinness, with apologist Bill Edgar, at the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union 2013 main event, St. Andrew the Great, Cambridge, England.

In the late 1960s, Guiness was a leader at L'Abri, and after Oxford, a freelance reporter for the BBC.

In 1984, a short while after completing his D.Phil. from Oxford, Guinness went to the United States and thereafter became, first, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and later a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Guiness served as Executive Director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation, described in materials from The Trinity Forum (TTF) as "a bicentennial celebration of the First Amendment." As that source states, in that role:

…he helped to draft the Williamsburg Charter and co-authored the public school curriculum Living With Our Deepest Differences.

The Charter "celebrat[ed] the genius of the First Amendment and se[t] out the signers' vision of a civil public square.""

Guinness served as a Senior Fellow at the TTF, from 1991 to 2004.

He was the primary person to draft "The Global Charter of Conscience," published at the European Union Parliament in Brussels in June 2012.

Guinness co-founded the Trinity Forum in 1991, serving as Senior Fellow with that organisation until 2004.

Guiness is currently a part of the leadership team at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA), "an autonomous study centre" focusing on its title subject, from a location near Guiness' alma mater, in Oxford, England.

An Anglican, Guinness was a member of the Episcopal Church, but left it due to their theological liberalism in 2006. As of 2014, he attends The Falls Church, in the Anglican Church in North America. He was one of the speakers at the Anglican Church in North America Assembly in June 2014.

Guinness currently lives in McLean, Virginia, with his wife Jenny.