Barry W. Lynn

Author and agitator

Barry W. Lynn graduated from Dickinson College, the Boston University School of Theology and the Georgetown University Law Center. He served as legislative counsel for both the Washington Office of the United Church of Christ and the American Civil Liberties Union. Lynn is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a member of the Supreme Court bar. He began a 25 year stint as Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State in 1992. Having appeared on most national radio and television talk shows (and the Daily Show in an interview with Stephen Colbert) he also was co-host of nationally syndicated radio programs with Pat Buchanan and Oliver North. Lynn is the only American ever likely to have won a "free speech" award from the Playboy Foundation and a "Medal of Freedom" for protecting the freedom to worship from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation. He was also honored to be given the "Creative Citizenship" Award from the Nation Institute and the Puffin Foundation in 2016. Lynn has been married for 52 years and has two grown children and 3 grandchildren. He resides in DC (which should be a state) and Massachusetts (which is one).His books include PIETY AND POLITICS and GOD AND GOVERNMENT and his work has appeared in many national newspapers and magazines. He is nearing completion of a book entitled PAID TO PISS PEOPLE OFF.