Eric Metaxas

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Eric Metaxas is the author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. Named “Book of the Year” by the ECPA, Bonhoeffer also won the 2011 John C. Pollock Award for Biography awarded by Beeson Divinity School and a 2011 Christopher Award in the Non-fiction category. Bonhoeffer has sold more than 600,000 units and has been translated into 15 languages. It is currently being made into an independent feature film starring Jackie Gleason and Art Carney. Metaxas was the keynote speaker at the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC. Along with his colleague John Stonestreet, Metaxas is the voice of BreakPoint, a radio commentary that is broadcast on 1,400 radio outlets with an audience of eight million. In 2011, Metaxas was the 17th recipient of the Canterbury Medal awarded by the Becket Fund for Religious Freedom. In September 2013, Eric and his wife Susanne were jointly awarded the Human Life Review’s “Great Defender of Life Award.” In a decidedly eclectic career, Eric Metaxas has written for VeggieTales, Chuck Colson, and the New York Times, three things not ordinarily found in the same sentence. He is a best-selling author whose biographies, children’s books, and works of popular apologetics have been translated into 18 languages. Eric Metaxas was born in New York City in 1963. He grew up in Danbury, Connecticut, attending the public schools there, and graduated from Yale University.

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Is Atheism Dead?

From Eric Metaxas' hot new book: An atheist materialist can't even admit he has a mind, so how he can tell us the way the world works?

Featured on: Tuesday, September 14, 2021

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Donald and the Fake News (Donald the Caveman)

After Donald the Caveman drained the Swamp and built the Wall, everyone was happy! Everyone, that is, except the freedom-haters who called themselves...

Featured on: Tuesday, August 25, 2020

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Seven More Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness

Heroes and role models have always been tremendously important--essential for inspiring our lives and shaping the world. But in the last few decades,...

Featured on: Wednesday, April 1, 2020

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Donald Builds the Wall

After Donald the Caveman drained the Swamp and the greedy Swamp Creatures fled, the cave people were free! So all kinds of great things began to happe...

Featured on: Thursday, October 17, 2019

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