Some nice things that people have said about Eric.
Eric Metaxas might just know the meaning of life.
Metaxas, 42, is the founder and host of Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life, a floating Manhattan lecture series lately headquartered at the Union League Club. Following the example of Socrates’ maxim that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” the semimonthly event provides a place where busy people in suits and sports jackets can discuss, as Metaxas puts it, “life, God and other small topics.”
Eric Metaxas aims high. He’s got a book out called Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God (But Were Afraid to Ask). He confesses early on that he’s really just taking “a crack at” the “everything” part, but hopes to get a conversation going about the higher things nonetheless — which he literally does in the book (it’s questions and answers) and does right here, too, always with a light touch.
PHILLIPS: So do you have questions about God? The author of “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God But Were Afraid to Ask” joins us next on LIVE FROM. We’re going to take your e-mails questions, too. Some of these are doozies. We can’t wait to see what he says.
The spiritual seeker was asking lots of questions about Christianity — which was good. He was asking them of a friend of mine who’s a mature Christian — also good. But some of my friend’s answers were — how shall I put it — a bit off the wall.
For instance, the seeker asked about necromancy — the practice of trying to contact the dead through witchcraft or sorcery. What did the Bible say about talking to the dead? My friend’s answer: “It says you should speak very loudly because the first thing that goes when you’re dead is your hearing.”
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