Os Guinness

Os Guinness (born 1941 in Hsiang Cheng, China, the son of medical missionaries) is an English social critic, author, and Christian apologist who holds a doctorate from Oxford. A great-great-great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was deeply shaped by his time at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland under Francis Schaeffer and has been a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum since the late 1980s.

Guinness writes at the intersection of Christianity and the public square, addressing themes of vocation, freedom, religious liberty, and the cultural dynamics of late modern Western societies. His book The Call has become a classic on Christian vocation, and his more recent A Free People's Suicide and Last Call for Liberty argue that ordered liberty in the American republic depends on the moral and religious foundations its founders assumed.