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Have You Really Not Read CHANCE OR THE DANCE? This article was originally published in the National Review on May 5, 2018; to read the article on their website, click here....

The Miracle from Dallas to Newcastle Ten years ago I had to fly to England for a conference. But just before that I had to be...

Miracle in Amagansett, June 2001 In the summer of 2001, my wife and our then-two-year-old daughter and I did something we had never done before....

Christmas at Dawn I saw the sun on Christmas morn Arise to herald newly born The One who flung him into space Before...

The Christmas Cross A true Christmas story.

Daily Don’t You Believe It! Eric Metaxas has combed the far corners of the known and unknown world to share startling and uncanny phenomena with...

Apple Pie Dream I brought an apple pie to bed And set it down beside my head. And when I fell asleep that...

Derrida And The Umbrella Have you ever helped a Deconstructionist? It had begun to drizzle and I had an umbrella, but the great French...

James’s Magic Coat O! James had a great big swallow-tailed coat, And in it James would rise and float. What joy it was...

Nightsnow Silently, silently. Silently, silently. All through the night through the air to the ground. Flake upon flake upon flake upon...

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From the Blog

Misunderstandings about Faith and Science, an excerpt from IS ATHEISM DEAD?

Remembrance and Ritual on Flag Day

A Republic, If We Can Keep It

Falling in Space, an excerpt from my new book FISH OUT OF WATER

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From the Blog

Misunderstandings about Faith and Science, an excerpt from IS ATHEISM DEAD?

Remembrance and Ritual on Flag Day

A Republic, If We Can Keep It

Falling in Space, an excerpt from my new book FISH OUT OF WATER

On this day in 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer went to glory.