Eric Metaxas spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. last spring and made quite an impression. Barack and Michelle Obama, at his table, are laughing at his dry wit (which shows up whenever he speaks) in this photo.
Having written for Veggie Tales, Chuck Colson, The New York Times, and more, his background is eclectic. He became a Christian believer after graduating from Yale as a confirmed unbeliever (conversion video here).
That's all great, but what interests me are his biographies of a couple of Christians who lived in difficult times and tried to make the world better. One of them was more clearly successful than the other. That man was William Wilberforce. He actually changed Western Civilization after something like 30 years of effort by getting the slave trade stopped in England.
Here's a video of Eric telling the story to a live audience. His book is entitled, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery.
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