Podcasts like The Eric Metaxas Show

Eric Metaxas (born 1963) is an American Christian author, speaker, and conservative radio host. He has written three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce (2007), Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011), and Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World about Martin Luther (2017). He has also written humor, children's books, and scripts for VeggieTales. Metaxas is the host of the NYC-based event series "Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life" and the radio program The Eric Metaxas Show.

Metaxas was born in the New York City neighborhood of Astoria, Queens and grew up in Danbury, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University (1984, B.A., English). While there, he edited the Yale Record, the nation's oldest college humor magazine. Metaxas lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter. He is Greek on his father's side and German on his mother's; he was raised in a Greek Orthodox environment.