1. Eric Metaxas was born on June 27,1963 and is an American author, speaker, and conservative radio host.
15 Facts About Eric Metaxas
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Eric Metaxas has written three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World.
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Eric Metaxas published a memoir, Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life as well as several books, including If You Can Keep it and Letter to the American Church.
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Eric Metaxas has written humor, children's books and scripts for VeggieTales.
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Eric Metaxas is Greek on his father's side and German on his mother's; he was raised in a Greek Orthodox environment.
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Eric Metaxas is the author of more than thirty children's books, including the bestsellers Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving and It's Time to Sleep, My Love, illustrated by Nancy Tillman.
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Eric Metaxas's books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
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Professor of German history and Bonhoeffer scholar Richard Weikart, for example, credits his "engaging writing style," but claims Eric Metaxas has a lack of intellectual background to interpret Bonhoeffer properly.
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In 2019, Eric Metaxas published two children's books called Donald Builds the Wall and Donald Drains the Swamp in a series called "Donald the Caveman".
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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Eric Metaxas told his followers not to get the vaccine.
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Eric Metaxas is the founder and host of a New York City event series called "Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life," where he interviews thinkers and writers, and is labeled as a forum on "life, God, and other small topics" in Eric Metaxas' book about the series.
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On February 2,2012, Eric Metaxas was the keynote speaker for the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast.
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Eric Metaxas has testified before Congress about the rise of anti-Semitism in the US and abroad, and he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2013 and 2014 on the issue of Religious Freedom.
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Eric Metaxas was awarded the Becket Fund's Canterbury Medal in 2011 and the Human Life Review's Defender of Life Award in 2013.
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Eric Metaxas has received honorary doctorate degrees from Hillsdale College, Liberty University, Sewanee: The University of the South, Ohio Christian University, and Colorado Christian University.