Eric Metaxas

Metaxas’s reviews, essays, and poetry have appeared in the New York Times, WashingtonPost, Christianity Today, NationalReview.com, and Beliefnet. He is the founder of Socrates in the City, a monthly forum on “Life, God, and other small topics.” The author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God, and more than a dozen children’s books, he lives in New York City.

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Biography/History

Amazing Grace

William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

Talking Points

ERIC METAXAS is the author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God (But Were Afraid to Ask) and thirty children’s books. He is founder and host of Socrates in the City in New York City, where he lives with is wife and daughter. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Washington Post, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Mars Hill Review, and First Things. He has written for VeggieTales and Rabbit Ears Productions, earning three Grammy nominations for Best Children’s Recording.

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The biography of William Wilberforce, a British statesman and reformer from the early part of the 19th century. It chronicles his extraordinary contributions to the world, primarily his 20-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, which he won in 1807.

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