Welcome to the Eric Mettaxas show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Hey, folks, it's that time of the week again.

You guessed it.

It's Thursday when we do our famous Ask Metaxis segment.

Here it is.

So, you ax, and I'll play the role of Metaxus.

We've got some fun questions this time.

I'll tell you.

Number one, which book did you like writing more, Bonhofer or Martin Luther? And why?

Oh, that's easy. Martin Luther. Really? Yeah. Bonhoffer was an agony. It was my second biography.

It's a long story, but it was an agony to write. I was under this horrifying deadline. I mean, I wrote

the thing in like, I don't know, no time, day and night.

It was very painful. The Martin Luther book was one of the few books I've ever written,

maybe the only one that I actually somehow enjoyed writing it. And some prophetic guy said,

this is going to be the toughest book you ever wrote. Totally wrong. It was the easiest book I ever wrote and the one I had the most fun with. So that was easy. The Martin Luther stuff is just loaded with kind of funny, interesting stuff. So if you're looking for a quirky read, I would recommend. Seriously, I think there's some really cool stuff in there. Yeah, I had fun reading it. There's some funny stuff in there.

Yeah. Okay. Question number two, enjoying, this person says, enjoying fish out of water, grew up in the same era. How do you remember so many details?

Okay, fish out of water is the memoir of my growing up up until my 25th birthday when I had my dramatic conversion, Jesus dream. And Fish Out of Water, the subtitle is a search for the meaning of life. But I always get the question, how do you remember so much? How do you get it? I have no idea. Like, I don't think of myself as having a particularly, I love people to point out, like, how do you remember this and this and this and this? Because I don't know. I just remember, you know, we all remember what we remember. So I have no idea, but so many people have said that. And I don't know, but I'm glad that it comes across that I remember a lot. But I had, there's a lot of funny stuff in that book, too. And I want to say, if you're looking for something that's a little lighter, you know, that there's just a lot of funny, crazy stories. And I thought I want it to be an entertaining, fun read. It's all true. Every syllable, trust me. But anyway, I'm glad you get that impression. The answer is I don't know. Questions 1 and 2 lead into question.

Three, when is your next book coming out?

The next book is titled is Atheism Dead.

You could read it today if you want.

It comes out October 19th, but if you join the launch team, you can read the book today.

They'll send you an electronic copy immediately.

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