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Join The Phil Vischer Podcast crew as they spend the afternoon with NY Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy). Eric Metaxas is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, which was named “Book of the Year” by the ECPA. Bonhoeffer also won the 2011 John C. Pollock Award for Biography awarded by Beeson Divinity School and a 2011 Christopher Award in the Non-fiction category. Called a “biography of uncommon power,” Bonhoeffer appeared on numerous 2010 “Best of the Year” lists and was featured in the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, The New Republic, Harper’s, Kirkus (starred review), NPR, FoxNews, C-SPAN’s Book TV, Christianity Today, The Weekly Standard, and First Things. Metaxas was the keynote speaker at the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, an event attended by the President and First Lady, the Vice President, members of Congress, and other U.S. and world leaders. Previous keynote speakers have included Mother Theresa, Bono, and Tony Blair. Metaxas is currently the voice of Breakpoint, a radio commentary that is broadcast on 400 stations with an audience of eight million. In 2011, Metaxas was the 17th recipient of the Canterbury Medal awarded by the Becket Fund for Religious Freedom. Previous medalists include Mitt Romney and Elie Wiesel. You can follow Eric on twitter @ericmetaxas

0:00.0	Hey there, this is Phil Visier. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with Skyjatani and
0:11.4	Christian Taylor, but she's not on mic today because we only have three mics and we had
0:14.9	to give our mic to our special guest who's going to do with us for the entire podcast
0:18.9	of Mr. Eric Mataxis. So before we start, we need our theme song. Here's the theme song
0:24.7	that goes something like this. Hey, it's a podcast. What do you know? Hey, it's a podcast.
0:30.4	So there's no video. Hey, it's a podcast. So lend an ear. The Phil Visier podcast starts
0:35.9	right here. We'll talk to Skyjatani and Christian to an Eric Mataxis here for you. Hey, it's
0:44.9	a podcast. So lend an ear. The Phil Visier podcast starts right here. The Phil Visier podcast
0:50.2	starts right here. Okay. Thanks. Thank you for stifling your applause. We don't want to
1:00.3	encourage it, Phil. I know. I'm not supposed to talk yet because you haven't introduced
1:04.9	me. Yeah. So I won't say anything. Okay. That's good. Try to keep it that way. We are here
1:09.9	with Skyjatani, Pastor, Speaker, Author, Philanthropist. And we're here with Eric Mataxis.
1:20.0	Eric Mataxis is an old friend of mine going back about 14, 13 years, I believe. He is best
1:30.0	known now. In fact, if you've heard of him, you probably know him from his biography of
1:35.3	Dietrich Bonhoffer, which has made his world explode with joy and happiness or not. But he
1:44.3	actually does much more than that. And we're mostly going to talk. He's here. He's in town.
1:49.8	He came out to be on the talk show tonight. We're filming another test of the talk show.
1:55.7	But we thought we'd do a podcast while we was here. So Eric Mataxis, welcome to the show.
1:59.6	Well, thanks for having me. I can't believe I'm here. I can't believe that you're really
2:05.3	named Sky. Did your parents name you Sky? Oh, you want that story now? It's actually
2:10.1	I wouldn't go that far. No, it's actually a nickname. Okay. All right. And is this spelling
2:14.4	a nickname? You know what? The nickname was given to me when I was born and my mother
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Episode 4: Guest Eric Metaxas

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