The morning after the Superbowl, I had the honor of spending an hour talking with former President George W. Bush. He and the First Lady have read Bonhoeffer and now I’m reading his book.
Receiving the Becket Fund’s 2011 Canterbury Medal for Religious Freedom was a humbling honor. Soli Deo Gloria! For an article excerpting the speech, click here. For more photos, click here. For PART I of the speech video, click here. For PART II, click here. For PART III click here. For Chuck Colson video, click here. For the Pres. George W. Bush video, click here!
This week in Colorado Springs, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy was given the highest honor that the ECPA awards each year. Soli Deo Gloria. For more details, click here.
A video of my conversion story
If you missed the April 9th event commemorating the 65th anniversary of Bonhoeffer’s death at the hands of the Nazis, click here to watch the video. The first twelve minutes are me introducing myself. The next part is the talk, followed by the lively Q&A. We’re thrilled to finally have captured an SITC event on video for all to see! Enjoy it and please share it with your friends! To buy this book at B&N, click here! To buy it at Amazon.com, click here! To buy it at CBD, click here!
Huge news! My Bonhoeffer book has received a “starred” review in Kirkus! This is spectacular, the equivalent of a gold medal in the publishing world! Here it is:
BONHOEFFER: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
A star is assigned to books of unusual merit, determined by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.
A welcome new biography of one of the 20th century’s leading lights.
Metaxas (Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God: The Jesus Edition, 2010, etc.) magnificently captures the life of theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), who “thought it the plain duty of the Christian—and the privilege and honor—to suffer with those who suffered.” In the finest treatment of the man since Eberhard Bethge’s Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage (1970), Metaxas presents a complete, accessible picture of this important figure, whose story is inspiring, instructive and international in scope. Coming of age in Germany at the close of World War I, the precocious Bonhoeffer quickly became a rising star on the international theological scene. In the 1930s he became a leader of the Confessing Church movement, which stood against Hitler, and helped organize its underground seminary. He also joined the Abwehr, the German intelligence agency in which foment against Hitler was most active. Bonhoeffer took part in the conspiracy to kill Hitler, which caused his imprisonment and eventual hanging, just weeks before the end of the war. Throughout this period he also wrote some of the greatest works of practical theology to come out of the first half of the 20th century. Metaxas rightly focuses on his subject’s life, not his theology, though readers will learn plenty about his theology as well. The author makes liberal use of primary sources, which bring Bonhoeffer and other characters to vivid life. For the most part, Metaxas allows this epic story to play itself out, unhindered by commentary; where he does add his own voice, the conclusions are sage.
A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the 21st century.
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TODAY IS THE 250th BIRTHDAY OF WILLIAM WILBERFORCE!!!
If you are unfamiliar with the extraordinary life of this man, born August 24th, 1759, please CLICK HERE. It’s the introduction to my biography, AMAZING GRACE: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, published two years ago to commemorate the bicentennial of his historic 1807 achievement, the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire.
To see me talking about Wilberforce on BookTV, click here. To see me talking about him on Hannity & Colmes, click here. And to hear me on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation”, talking with Michael Apted, the director of the AMAZING GRACE movie, also released two years ago, click here.
DO SOMETHING TODAY TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF ONE OF THE TRUE HEROES OF HISTORY! At the very least tell your friends about it, so they can join you in shouting:
. . . H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y , M R . W I L B E R F O R C E ! ! !
Eric talks about Dietrich Bonhoeffer with Lauren Green on FNC’s “The Strategy Room” 
Salvation Army Divisional Leaders’ Conference, Keynote Address
Socrates in the City is thrilled to report that Socrates (in the person of the Emmy-winning, Yale Drama-trained auteur Yannis Simonides) will actually be coming to the city — yes, to New York City — on January 24th, and will get to speak his piece (or Plato’s famous recollection of his piece, from “The Apology”, circa 399 B.C.) 
You do not want to miss this! Think of the time it will save you in not having to read Plato’s dialogue! You’ll seem educated and well-read and I won’t tell a soul that it’s all a terrible, terrible sham! Seriously, this is not to be missed. Simonides has performed this critically-acclaimed one-man show all over the world: in Athens (under the Acropolis), in Dubai, in London, in Oxford and Cambridge, in Luxembourg, in Delphi, in Montevideo — and at the U.N. and on NBC’s Today Show. He’s even been booked by Columbia University to do it for their incoming students every two years to kick-off their Core Curriculum! They don’t have to read Plato either! To register for this extraordinary evening, please click here — and hurry! SITC’s introductory rates don’t last long! This will be Saturday night the 24th of January only, at the Society for Ethical Culture at 2 West 64th Street. Now you know! All details are at www.socratesinthecity.com.