Awaken Church invites members to join and welcome their guest speaker Eric Metaxas on March 27 at Marcos Campus from 9 a.m to 11 p.m.
The church website highlights that Metaxas is the New York Times’ top bestselling author of Fish out of Water, Martin Luther, If You Can Keep It, Bonhoeffer, Miracles, Seven Women, Seven Men, and Amazing Grace.
They also stated that he had written 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. The website added that his books had been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
Additionally, Metaxas hosted the Eric Metaxas Radio Show, a nationally syndicated radio program aired in more than 120 cities around the United States. They feature in-depth interviews with a wide range of guests, such as Tony Hale, Joseph Fiennes, Adam McKay, Dick Cavett, etc., noted on the website.
The church also emphasized that Metaxas speaks to many people around the U.S. and internationally every year. He was the main speaker at the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, a program attended by the President and First Lady, the Vice President, members of Congress, and the other U.S and world leaders.
More About Erick Metaxas
On Erick Metaxas website, they mentioned that Metaxas is the founder and host of Socrates in the City: Conversation on the Examined Life, an event series of “entertaining and thought-provoking discussion of life, God, and other small topics” wherein the author features such guests like Malcolm Gladwell, Peter Thiel, Cal Thomas, and Bob Beckel.
In 2011, Metaxas was the 17th awardee of the Canterbury Medal awarded by the Beckel Fund for Religious Freedom, mentioned on the said website. The author testified before Congress on the rise of anti-Semitism in America and abroad. The website noted that he also gave his speech at CPAC2013 on Religious Freedom.
More importantly, they highlighted that Metaxas and his wife Susanne were awarded the Human Life Review’s Great Defender of Life Award. The said author has been given an honorary Doctorated from Hillsdale College, Liberty University, and Sewanee: The University of the South.
Eric’s Wall Street Journal
The website also mentioned that his piece on Wall Street Journal, “Science Increasingly makes a case for God,” is unofficially the most famous and shared piece in the history of Wall Street Journal. They also reported that the said piece was published in the said journal on December 25, 2014. After it was published, the article has received over 600,000 Facebook shares and more than 9,250 comments making it the most trending piece, unofficially, in the history of the Wall Street Journal, the website reported.
The said article is about the odds of life on another planet and intelligent design added to the post. Metaxas revealed the story of the famous headline on Time about the astronomer Carl Sagan announcing that there were two crucial aspects for a planet to support life; The right kind of star and the proper distance of a world from the star.
An important note the author discussed is that this spectacular odds, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a vast, expensive collection of private and publicly funded programs launched in the 1960s, was sure to turn up something soon.
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