Podcast: Seven More Men and the Secret of Their Greatness
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Biographer, apologist, former BreakPoint co-host, and host of the popular radio show bearing his name, Eric Metaxas joins Shane Morris on the BreakPoint podcast to talk about his new book, Seven More Men and the Secret of Their Greatness.
Eric talks about his desire to re-introduce true heroes of the faith to modern believers, men like preacher George Whitfield, whom Eric asserts played just as much a role in the founding of the United States as George Washington; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, ardent anti-Communist and also a severe critic of the increasingly secular West; and Sgt. Alvin York, arguably America's greatest war hero of the 20th century, a humble Christian man whose exploits in WWI seem to have long been forgotten.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. I'm Shane Morris and I'm no Dave Letterman, but my next guest truly needs no introduction. |
| 0:07.8 | He's someone whose career has spanned veggie tales to bestselling historical biographies, to several years as the voice of Breakpoint alongside my boss, John Stone Street, to the host of a daily program on the Salem Network named in what I can only describe as |
| 0:21.4 | a shameless expression of ego after himself. |
| 0:25.0 | Eric Metaxis is best known as the author of Bonhofer, Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, |
| 0:30.6 | but more recently for his books, Seven Men and the Secret of Their Greatness, |
| 0:34.4 | and Seven Women in the Secret of Their their greatness, which profile the lives of |
| 0:38.1 | especially influential and remarkable people throughout history, particularly Christians. |
| 0:43.4 | He's just written a new book called Seven More Men, and you can guess what that's about. |
| 0:47.9 | That's what we want to talk today about on the Breakpoint podcast. Eric, thanks so much for coming on. |
| 0:52.7 | It's a pleasure to have you. It's my pleasure |
| 0:54.6 | to be here. I want you to know I invested in a brand new wig. This is real hair. And the wig |
| 1:01.6 | adhesive is not working the way it's supposed to. So I feel uncomfortable because I feel like |
| 1:07.2 | it's going to move. So I just want to warn the audience. Anything can happen. |
| 1:12.7 | Is that genuine musk ox hair, Eric? |
| 1:13.6 | No, no, no. |
| 1:14.4 | This is horse hair. |
| 1:15.1 | Okay, got you. |
| 1:15.9 | I'll be honest with you. |
| 1:17.9 | The wig, it's been in the family for years. |
| 1:18.9 | I just had a dry cleaned. |
| 1:22.3 | Have we confused people enough yet? |
| 1:23.8 | Has it been on any female relatives? |
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