Wythe Leigh Kinsolving (November 14, 1878 – December 21, 1964) was an American Episcopal priest, writer, poet, Democratic Party political advocate, sometime pacifist, and anti-Communist.
Ovid Americus Kinsolving (1822-1894), who had been imprisoned for his Confederate oratory during the Civil War, and his third wife, Roberta Elizabeth Cary, a granddaughter of John Mathews.
In December 1908, newspapers around the country reported that Kinsolving had confronted his father-in-law over questions the latter raised about his mental health, that the two ministers had a fist fight, and that he had resigned the Epiphany pulpit as a result.
He published a book of poetry and essays, From the Anvil of War, reflecting his experiences abroad, and his desire for all Christians to be united into a single world church.
[12] Within the Protestant Episcopal Church, he was a critic of advocates for more lenient rules on divorce,[13] and opposed a resolution praising President Herbert Hoover's handling of the economy.
[25][26][27][28][29] At a political round table conference at the University of Virginia's Institute of Public Affairs in 1935, he was quoted as saying, "If I were not a clergyman, I would say, 'Damn the opponents of the New Deal;' they don't know what they are talking about.
[34][35][36][37][38][39][40] In a sharp reversal from a few years earlier, he predicted that Franklin Roosevelt would become "a sort of dictator"; he described 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie approvingly as "a man inclined to peace."
Shortly after the fall of France to German Nazi forces, he wrote of the American reaction to the news as "the hysteric period when Hitler Phobia developed into a national menace.
He wrote that the British Empire "was built in bloodshed, brutal onslaughts, seizure of lands -- Canada and India, South Africa, Nova Scotia, etc."