The KindlingsFest summer event, held on Orcas Island for the first time last summer, was a great hit as main speaker Dr. Jerry Root, spoke on the writings of C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia.
Now, Kindlings WinterFest sponsors author and speaker Os Guinness, who will give four talks on Christian Faith for the 21st Century from Friday evening, Jan. 30, to Sunday morning, Feb. 1 at Orcas Island Community Church. The lecture topics include:
- The Journey – A thinking person’s quest for meaning
- Survival of the Fastest – Living sanely when life is fired point blank
- A World Safe for Diversity – Living with our deepest differences in a world of exploding pluralism
- You Only Live Once – Calling, the ultimate game plan for life
The Public is welcome at these free lectures at 176 Madrona Street in Eastsound, with a suggested donation to The Kindlings of $10 per lecture.
For more information call: 360-376-6422 Or visit www.TheKindlings.com
Os Guinness is the co-founder of The Trinity Forum and served as Senior Fellow and Vice Chairman of the Board from its inception in 1991 until 2004.
Born in China during World War II, he remained there until 1951 when the Communists forced most foreigners to leave. Since then he has lived mostly in England, Switzerland, and the United States.
Educated in England, he did undergraduate studies at the University of London and postgraduate studies at University of Oxford. Since 1984, he has lived in the Washington, DC area. He was a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and then a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was co-author of the public school curriculum “Living With Our Deepest Differences.”
He has written or edited more than twenty books, including Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror and The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It.
His deep concern is to bridge the chasm between academic knowledge and popular knowledge, taking things that are academically important and making them intelligible and practicable to a wider audience, especially as they concern matters of public policy.
