John Nevin Sayre

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1884|02|04}}

| birth_place = Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, US

| death_date = {{death date and age|1977|09|13|1884|02|04}}

| death_place = South Nyack, New York, US

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| alma_mater = {{ubl | Princeton University | Union Theological Seminary}}

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| relatives = Francis Bowes Sayre Sr. (brother)

| religion = Christianity (Anglican)

| church = Episcopal Church (United States)

| ordained = {{hlist | 1911 (deacon) | 1912 (priest)}}

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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.

{{cite news

| title = John Nevin Sayre, 93; Peace-Movement Leader

| newspaper = New York Times

| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/16/archives/rev-john-nevin-sayre-93-peacemovement-leader.html

| page = 27

| date = 16 September 1977

| accessdate = 25 May 2020}}

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.

{{cite book

| last = Applebaum

| first = Patricia Faith

| title = Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture Between World War I and the Vietnam Era

| place = Chapel Hill, North Carolina

| publisher = University of North Carolina Press

| date = 2009

| pages = 148}}

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.

{{cite book

| last = Lumpkin

| first = Grace

| title = To Make My Bread

| publisher = University of Illinois Press

| date = 1995

| orig-year = 1932

| pages = introduction

| isbn = 0-252-06501-8

| url = https://archive.org/details/tomakemybread00lump

}}

{{cite book

| last = Chambers

| first = Whittaker

| title = Witness

| url = https://archive.org/details/witnesscham00cham

| url-access = registration

| publisher = Random House

| year = 1952

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/witnesscham00cham/page/265 265–266]

| isbn = 0-89526-571-0}}

{{cite book

| last = Weinstein

| first = Allen

| title = Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case

| publisher = Knopf

| year = 1978

| pages = 91, 96

| isbn = 0-394-49546-2}}

{{cite book

| last = Lee

| first = Janet

| title = Comrades and Partners: The Shared Lives of Grace Hutchins and Anna Rochester

| publisher = Rowman and Littlefield

| year = 1999

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/comradespartners00leej/page/153 153]

| isbn = 0-8476-9620-0

| url = https://archive.org/details/comradespartners00leej/page/153

}}

{{cite book

| last = Meier

| first = Andrew

| title = The Lost Spy

| publisher = W. W. Norton

| year = 2008

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/lostspyamericani00meie/page/373 373]

| isbn = 978-0-393-06097-3

| url = https://archive.org/details/lostspyamericani00meie/page/373

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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.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20080814193738/http://www.episcopalchurch.org/19625_14610_ENG_HTM.htm Episcopal Church] - John Nevin Sayre Award (1979)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110413213402/http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG100-150/dg117/dg117jsayreint.htm Swarthmore College] - John Nevin Sayre: Records, 1885–1982; (bulk, 1922–1967)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110723043823/http://www.mertoncenter.org/Research/Correspondence/z.asp?id=1780 Thomas Merton Center] - Thomas Merton's Correspondence with: Sayre, John Nevin, 1885-1982
[https://web.archive.org/web/20100613115924/http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Sayre__John_Nevin.html Pennsylvania Center for the Book] - John Nevin Sayre
[https://www.nytimes.com/1913/11/17/archives/the-wilsons-favor-friends-in-wedding-gathering-at-white-house.html New York Times] - Marriage Announcement (November 17, 1913)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080813002247/http://www.forusa.org/nonviolence/0900_63deats.html FOR] - 85 Years of the FOR
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080813134951/http://www.forusa.org/fellowship/jul-aug-04/swomley.html FOR] - Noble Endeavor: Memoir of FOR in the 20th Century
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080813013356/http://www.forusa.org/fellowship/may-june_05/deats.html FOR] - Living in an Extraordinary Time
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080813015150/http://www.forusa.org/fellowship/may-june_05/chernus.html FOR] - Is War Good for Nonviolence?
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060816062510/http://www.epfnational.org/publish/cat_index_56.shtml Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF)]
[https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/sayre-john-nevin An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church]

Category:1884 births

Category:1977 deaths

Category:20th-century American Episcopal priests

Category:Activists from Pennsylvania

Category:American anti-war activists

Category:American Christian pacifists

Category:Anglican pacifists

Category:Christians from Pennsylvania

Category:Princeton University alumni

Category:Religious leaders from Pennsylvania

Category:Union Theological Seminary alumni

Category:Writers from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania