John Nevin Sayre (February 4, 1884 – September 13, 1977) was an American Episcopal priest,

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, and author. He was an active member of the

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(FOR) and helped found the Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship (now the ''Episcopal Peace Fellowship''). The US State Department official

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was his brother.

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 Brookwood Labor College (1921 to 1937) was a labor college located at 109 Cedar Road in Katonah, New York, United States. Founded as Brookwood School in 1919 and established as a college in 1921, it was the first residential labor college in the co ...

Hiss Case

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's wife

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and her friend

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worked for Sayre on the staff of ''The World Tomorrow'' magazine during the 1920s. Later, Sayre's brother

had

Alger Hiss Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Statutes of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perjury in con ...

reporting to him at the State Department, then declined to testify on Hiss's behalf.

References

External links

Episcopal Church
- John Nevin Sayre Award (1979)

- John Nevin Sayre: Records, 1885–1982; (bulk, 1922–1967)
Thomas Merton Center
- Thomas Merton's Correspondence with: Sayre, John Nevin, 1885-1982

- John Nevin Sayre

- Marriage Announcement (November 17, 1913)

- 85 Years of the FOR

- Noble Endeavor: Memoir of FOR in the 20th Century

- Living in an Extraordinary Time

- Is War Good for Nonviolence?
Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF)''An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church''
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 (New York City) alumni Writers from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania {{Anglicanism-stub