Don’t miss a chance to hear acclaimed author and social critic Os Guinness at Christ Church Easton. His talk is entitled “How Faithful Citizenship and Responsible Freedom can Restore the Public Good,” is free and open to the public and will be held on Wednesday, October 3 at 7pm in the church.
Dr. Guinness will speak about what he calls “the paradox of American Liberty” and how religious faith can create a culture of sustained and responsible freedom, drawing from themes in his new book The Last Call for Liberty: How America’s Genius for Freedom has Become Its Greatest Threat. In times of rising polarization and increasing political incivility, his talk will chart a way forward informed by the deepest truths of the Christian faith.
Guinness is the great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, and was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his doctor of philosophy in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford. Os has written or edited more than thirty books, including The Call, Time for Truth, Unspeakable, A Free People’s Suicide, and The Global Public Square. His latest book, Last Call for Liberty: How America’s Genius for Freedom Has Become Its Greatest Threat, was published in 2018.
Since moving to the United States in 1984, Os 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. Os has spoken at many of the world’s major universities, and spoken widely to political and business conferences across the world.
Copies of his book will be available at the event free of charge.
The talk is co-presented by Washington College’s Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture. The event will also be the occasion for the announcement of a new annual $5,000 award provided by the Institute to an individual or organization in the Delmarva region whose work manifests the power of religious faith and public spiritedness to advance the public good.
The Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture was founded and is directed by Professor Joseph Prud’homme. The Institute explores the historic and continuing contributions of religion to political and cultural life, in the United State and around the world, and the moral, political and cultural principles supporting a free society and responsible self-government.
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