The Eric Metaxas Show

Halloween is days away, and Allie Beth Stuckey has Christians arguing about horror films. On her Relatable podcast she said believers shouldn't be fans of horror in general. Is she right? Eric has strong views, and he talks it through with Ryan Bethea, creator and host of The Exorcist Files, who thinks t⭐ ORDER NOW:Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World📕: ht...

Dr. Mark Christian grew up in Egypt as the firstborn son of a respected physician and religious leader. He was leading prayers in mosques by age nine and later led prayers in Mecca. He studied hard to prove his faith was true, and the more he studied, the more questions he had. Asking them, he says, made him a threat to his own father. In his memoir, The Apostate: My Search for Truth, he tells wha...

Pastor Allen Jackson of World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has a challenge for "spectator" Christians: stop sitting in the stands and complaining. Too many believers, he says, sit out with excuses like "I won't support Donald Trump because he doesn't talk nice, or I won't support Pete Hegseth because he has a tattoo or whatever nonsense." His answer:...

The midterms are one week away, and Eric has a warning for every Christian: "If you do not vote, your soul is in danger." John Zmirak of The Stream joins Eric to talk about what's at stake on November 3, why Eric is encouraged that the Justice Department is finally looking into Ilhan Omar, and why Zmirak says candidates like Ilhan Omar and Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed are "laug...

Doctors called it schizophrenia. He believes it was demonic. Urban missionary and apologist Angelos Kyriakides tells Eric his story: he was getting high at 12, using drugs by 16, and had a breakdown at 17. He explains how a Good Will Hunting scene at 3 a.m. and a mentor who slammed a Bible on the floor finally brought him to Christ, and why he believes the West needs a public confrontation with th...

Did the Trump administration really call Putin a "humanitarian," or did the media miss the point? Rod Martin joins Eric to break down Steve Witkoff's comments after Russia freed American Stephen Hubbard, and why Eric says it's diplomacy, not praise. They also take on the media's soft treatment of Ilhan Omar after the federal search of her home, the jobs and investment boom th...

Was the childhood home of Jesus found beneath a convent in Nazareth, and why won't the scholars say it out loud? Dinesh D'Souza joins Eric to walk through the discoveries in his new book, The Stones Cry Out: Biblical Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Last Days, and his companion PragerU documentary series. Dinesh describes standing in the pit where the prophet Jeremiah was thrown and trapped...

Sold in Ottoman slave markets as a teenage Christian girl, then rescued by an American, Aurora Mardiganian told the world what happened to Armenia's Christians in her 1918 memoir Ravished Armenia. Larry Alex Taunton thought her story was so important that he brought more than 100 copies to hand out after his September 11 talk, "The Cross and the Quran," which has drawn millions of vi...

Netflix's Narnia: The Magician's Nephew has Meryl Streep voicing Aslan and a reported budget of $280 million. And John Zmirak says test audiences hated it. Eric and John take on Greta Gerwig's adaptation of C.S. Lewis, why Hollywood keeps buying beloved properties only to turn them against their fans, and the one scene online critics may have gotten backwards. Then John explains why a...

Karl Marx is often remembered as an economist who wanted to help the poor. But John G. West of Discovery Institute says that as a young man, Marx wrote dark poetry about forfeiting heaven: "My soul, once true to God, is chosen for hell." Eric and John discuss why communism isn't merely wrong economics but, they argue, spiritually anti-Christian from A to Z, and why most Christian col...

Ben Schettler, co-founder and president of the Center for Truth in Love, set up a debate table in Washington Square Park the way Charlie Kirk did on campuses. He says park police shut him down on May 19 while a drug dealer sat untouched a few yards away. The next night a mob surrounded him, he was punched from behind, his phone was stolen and he was taken away in an ambulance. In that ambulance, h...

Ilhan Omar's home has been raided, and Eric says that's "earth shattering" because "our side doesn't do this kind of stuff unless it's legit." Strategist Rod Martin, author of the forthcoming Trump's New World Reorder, joins Eric to discuss what he says comes next, including a reported subpoena for Omar's sister over a USAID grant of about $20 million. B...

Brian Kilmeade joins Eric on the release day of his new book, Uniting the States, to tell six moments that he believes forged the American miracle. They include John Adams defending the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre, a mysterious fog that let Washington's army escape Brooklyn, Shays' Rebellion, the War of 1812, the Louisiana Purchase, and John Quincy Adams' crusade against...

Joe Infranco didn't initially believe what he was hearing. People with nonspeaking autism were beginning to communicate through spelling, revealing thoughts, interests and abilities that many around them never realized were there. Then some began telling Joe something even stranger: they said they could see angels, demons, Jesus and an unseen spiritual realm. Infranco, a pastor and longtime tr...

What if the greatest danger of artificial intelligence isn't that machines become more human, but that humans become more like machines? Christian apologist and author Abdu Murray joins Eric to discuss his new book Fake ID: How AI and Identity Ideology Are Collapsing Reality and What to Do About It. Abdu argues that the explosion of artificial intelligence and modern identity ideology share a...

What does it actually mean to be saved? Tim Mulgrew, author of Christian: A Contract With God: Understanding the Terms of True Salvation*, joins Eric to examine one of the most sobering warnings in Scripture: Jesus saying, “I never knew you.”Tim argues that many Christians have been taught to think salvation is simply a matter of walking an aisle, praying a prayer, getting baptized or mentally agr...

She escaped North Korea and eventually reached safety in South Korea. Years later, she still sleeps with her shoes beside the bed because part of her remains prepared to run. Dan Chung, Executive Director of Crossing Borders and author of *A Hard Freedom: The Dreams and Trauma of North Korean Refugees*, joins Eric to share the extraordinary stories of people who have escaped one of the world’s mos...

What did America’s Founders actually mean by “religious liberty”?Ryan Helfenbein of Liberty University joins Eric to discuss the Christian influences on America’s founding, the Constitution, religious liberty, and why he believes the modern understanding of religious pluralism differs significantly from the framework held by many early American leaders. Eric and Ryan also discuss the postwar chang...

The viral image of a passenger duct-taped to his airplane seat only told part of the story. Billy Hallowell joins Eric with new details from interviews with two of the passengers who stepped in during the bizarre midflight incident involving Jonathan Cahn. Billy says one of the men was a retired police officer who helped restrain the passenger after the situation became physical. According to thos...

What do the stories you loved as a child reveal about who you are today? Stephen Kent, creator of Geeky Stoics and coauthor of Great Escape: 30 Reflections on Stoicism, Faith, and the Wisdom of Great Stories, joins Eric to explore why stories from C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Star Wars and other childhood favorites can shape the way we understand courage, meaning, faith and the world around us. The...

A commercial flight bound for Israel suddenly plunged after its copilot stabbed the captain, forcing passengers and crew into a desperate effort to regain control of the aircraft. Eric and Rod Martin discuss the extraordinary Flydubai incident, what it raises about airline security, and the broader changes taking place in relations between Israel and several Arab nations. Eric also reacts to Vanit...

Pat Boone joins Eric for a wide-ranging trip through more than seven decades of American music and entertainment. Pat recalls breaking into the charts in the early days of rock and roll, when Elvis Presley was once his opening act and the two spent years competing near the top of the charts. He also shares some remarkable statistics from his recording career, including his claim that he recorded r...

Meryl Streep is officially set to voice Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, and Eric has some serious questions about what the choice says about Hollywood’s approach to Lewis. Eric and author, educator, and filmmaker Joe LaConte discuss Aslan’s role in the Narnia stories, C.S. Lewis’s understanding of Christianity, masculinity and femininity,...

An undercover investigation in Mexico City leads to an extraordinary claim about a new way of getting into the United States. Larry Taunton joins Eric to share what he says his investigators recently discovered while looking into changing migrant routes after the U.S. border crackdown. Taunton says an undercover operative was told he could obtain an authentic U.S. biometric visa for $3,000 in just...

Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric and Rod Martin break down a week of major developments involving President Trump, Greenland, China, the United Nations, crime and the upcoming midterms. They discuss the newly signed U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement, what it changes in the Arctic, Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, and new FBI data showing a historic decline in violent crime. Rod also p...