Eric Metaxas's Blog, page 7
August 18, 2014
August 1, 2014
Norwich, UK
Eric will speak at Newday Summer Camp, a youth conference that runs from July 28 – August 2. For more information, contact Newday Summer Camp.
July 20, 2014
Oxford, England
Eric will speak at the C.S. Lewis Foundation’s 2014 Oxbridge Conference in England.This conference takes place in Oxford and Cambridge, and runs from July 21st through 31st. For more information, click here.
July 19, 2014
Communion on the Moon: July 20th, 1969
Forty-five years ago today two human beings changed history by walking on the surface of the moon. But what happened before Buzz Aldrin (pictured in the LM, left) and Neil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps even more amazing, if only because so few people know about it.
I’m talking about the fact that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of the moon. Some months after his return, he wrote about it in Guideposts magazine. And a few years ago I had the privilege of meeting him mys...
July 17, 2014
“What the Bird Said Early in the Year”
This week I’ve had the tremendous privilege of being in Oxford to shoot a small-group dvd series about C.S.Lewis, due out early next year. You can see photos here. I’ll be adding more each day. Today we shot behind Magdalen College, on Addison’s walk, where late one September night in 1931 J.R.R. Tolkien, Hugo Dyson, and Lewis took a walk. Tolkien got Lewis to consider the idea that Jesus’s incarnation, death, and resurrection were a myth that was also historically true. Nine days later, afte...
July 1, 2014
Holy Talkshow, Batman! It’s Dick Cavett!!!
One of the true privileges of my life has been to befriend the great Dick Cavett, whose Emmy-winning tv show has been a major inspiration for Socrates in the City. I recently had the honor of speaking at a gala celebration of his career at the Museum of Broadcasting in Chicago — and was able to reprise Red Buttons’ famous “Never got a dinner!” routine. “Why!? WHY are we giving this man a dinner?!
So how terrific that this master interviewer (pictured interviewing Groucho) has agreed to be the...
June 27, 2014
My new book is finished! It’s a Miracle!
Have you ever wondered what a miracle is, or why miracles happen — or how miracles can change your life? What a coincidence — or is it a miracle? — because I’ve written a NEW BOOK titled Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life. The book will be launched on Oct. 28th at a special Socrates in the City event with our first ever guest host, none other than tv legend and Emmy Award-winning talk show host, Mr. Dick Cavett! He will interview me here in NYC on the...
June 25, 2014
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Eric will speak at a Provincial Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America.The theme of the Assembly will be “Thy Kingdom Come: Conversion, Compassion, Courage.” The gathering will also commemorate the completion of Archbishop Robert Duncan’s five year term as the first Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America.Dates: June 25th, 26th, and 27th, 2014. The location is St. Vincent College and Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. For more information, contact the Anglican Church in...
June 10, 2014
Bonhoeffer Never Said That!
This is how these things happen. AMAZING. What am I talking about? I’m talking about the fact that Dietrich Bonhoeffer NEVER said “Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.” But it’s EVERYWHERE on the internet that he said that. But he didn’t. Who said it? Eric Metaxas. On page 486 of my Bonhoeffer book I sum up a theme of his and put it in those words. It is what I believe, but I came to put it in those words while writing...
