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September 18, 2012
Birmingham, Alabama
Eric will speak at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham on the evening of Sept. 18th. For more information, click here…
September 17, 2012
Here’s the video of Os Guinness at SITC!
If you care about America, Os Guinness’s talk at Socrates in the City last week was profoundly important. Please click here to watch the video! SITC is thrilled to offer it to the general public at no cost for a limited time. Please share it as widely as you like! And please do get a copy of Os’s book, “A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future.” Finally, for my Breakpoint commentaries on the book, click here.
Os Guinness at Socrates in the City
Os Guinness’s talk at Socrates in the City last week was profoundly important. As a result, we will be posting in online for free as soon as possible. Please stay tuned! In the meantime, do get his book “A Free People’s Suicide” and see for yourself.
September 13, 2012
New York City
Eric will be hosting a Socrates in the City event with guest speaker Os Guinness on Thursday, Sept. 13th at the Union League Club at 37th and Park Avenue. Os will speak on the subject of his new book “A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future”. Book signing to follow.
September 11, 2012
END OF THE WORLD ARRIVES: NYER Says “Hone In”.
Someone shoot me before the earth melts, which will happen any moment now. How do I know? Simple. In the new issue of the New Yorker magazine, which once greatly (almost overweeningly) prided itself on its use of the English language, the writer Steve Coll in his opening piece for the “The Talk of the Town” uses/mis-uses/whatever, dude the phrase “honed in.” For those of you scoring at home, this marks the final milestone in the decline of Western Civilization.
The grotesque boner comes in the...
September 8, 2012
Bonhoeffer Tour of Berlin
This past week I had the great pleasure of giving a two-day Bonhoeffer Tour of Berlin to a group of friends. We stayed at the historic Adlon Hotel on Unter der Linden and visited many Bonhoeffer sites, including his parents’ home in Charlottenburg, where he was arrested in 1943, the Grunewald home where he grew up, the Zionskirche (pictured), 
the Bendlerblock where Stauffenberg and others involved in the Valkyrie plot were executed, the site of the former Gestapo Headquarters, the Kaiser-Wilh...
September 3, 2012
Berlin, Germany
Eric will be speaking about Dietrich Bonhoeffer at several events in Berlin during this week. Details TBA.
August 9, 2012
Nostradamus Foresaw This Dark Day
It is said that the medieval French mystic Nostradamus foresaw the dark day when beach volleyball would become an Olympic sport:
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By the Palace Horse Guards in Londinium
four leaping maidens round a net, not blind but dumb.
On a beach with no ocean, only land
Coubertin weeps to see the rectangle of sand.
July 31, 2012
Did you hear today’s Breakpoint?
Did you? And are you signed up to get the daily Breakpoint commentaries? If you’re not, I’d like to think you’re really missing something. To sign up, please click here! Or to go directly to the Breakpoint website to see all our commentaries, click here!
To read my recent Breakpoint on R.A. Dickey, click here. And to hear my recent BP on Chick-fil-A and “Breaking the Spiral of Silence,” click here. And there you have it.
July 14, 2012
FREE Excerpt from “Jesus Hates Dead Religion”
Click here for a FREE excerpt from my new e-book, Jesus Hates Dead Religion… To purchase a copy, please see below…
