John Nevin Sayre
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". John Nevin Sayre (February 4, 1884 – September 13, 1977) was an American Episcopal priest, peace activist, and author. He was an active member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and helped found the Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship (now the Episcopal Peace Fellowship). The US State Department official Francis Bowes Sayre Sr. was his brother.[1]
Reputation
Sayre promoted peace and supported conscientious objectors throughout the world through magazines he edited (The World Tomorrow and Fellowship), books that he wrote, and various peace organizations he belonged to or founded.
Academics
Sayre taught nonviolent techniques at the Brookwood Labor College.[2]
Hiss Case
Whittaker Chambers's wife Esther Shemitz and her friend Grace Lumpkin worked for Sayre on the staff of The World Tomorrow magazine during the 1920s.[3][4][5][6][7]
Later, Sayre's brother Francis Bowes Sayre Sr. had Alger Hiss reporting to him at the State Department, then declined to testify on Hiss's behalf.
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External links
- Episcopal Church - John Nevin Sayre Award (1979)
- Swarthmore College - John Nevin Sayre: Records, 1885–1982; (bulk, 1922–1967)
- Thomas Merton Center - Thomas Merton's Correspondence with: Sayre, John Nevin, 1885-1982
- Pennsylvania Center for the Book - John Nevin Sayre
- New York Times - Marriage Announcement (November 17, 1913)
- FOR - 85 Years of the FOR
- FOR - Noble Endeavor: Memoir of FOR in the 20th Century
- FOR - Living in an Extraordinary Time
- FOR - Is War Good for Nonviolence?
- Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF)
- An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church
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- 1884 births
- 1977 deaths
- 20th-century American Episcopal priests
- Activists from Pennsylvania
- American anti-war activists
- American Christian pacifists
- Anglican pacifists
- Christians from Pennsylvania
- Princeton University alumni
- Religious leaders from Pennsylvania
- Union Theological Seminary alumni
- Writers from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania