He was not only the keynote speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast where President Obama also spoke he also succeeded the late Charles Colson-both as the voice of the nationally-syndicated radio commentary, Breakpoint, and as one of the three-member board of directors of the premier US conservative Catholic/evangelical alliance, The Manhattan Declaration.Īs an up-and-coming evangelical leader, he has also been busy denouncing proposed federal regulations on contraception coverage in employer insurance packages. Metaxas is not yet a household name, but this has certainly been his year. Probably few who gathered to hear Bonhoeffer’s latest biographer expected to be asked to imagine themselves called by God to rise up against a regime that might be as heinous as the Third Reich-but as it turns out Metaxas is not unique among religious-right intellectuals in his use of the language of armed revolt. In March of this year, Eric Metaxas, author of a bestselling biography of the anti-Nazi German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer gave a presentation about his book to a small audience at a bookstore near the White House in Washington DC.
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