The Eric Metaxas Show

Brant Hansen joins Eric for a long conversation about what Jesus actually meant by "love your enemies," and why so many Christians skip that command.They talk through contempt in public life, how to attack bad ideas without demeaning people made in God's image, why turning the other cheek is strength rather than weakness, and how praying for the person who cuts you off in traffic can change your own heart. Hansen draws on the Sermon on the Mount, Corrie ten Boom, Bonhoeffer and Wilberforce; Eric brings George Washington's officers and Chuck Colson's line about doing hard justice with...

Southern Baptist pastor D. Michael Clary talks with Eric about his new book, Loser Theology: Why the Weak Will Not Inherit the Earth, and the passive, retreating faith he says has trained many Christians to lose.Clary explains why Jesus said the meek, not the weak, will inherit the earth, and why meekness means strength under control. He also covers what "turn the other cheek" does and doesn't mean (including whether a Christian may defend his home), the difference between real humility and a performance of humility, and why he says the biggest tell about a pastor is what...

Recorded the morning after the 2026 midterms. Eric, Kevin McCullough and Rod D. Martin on what happened, why it happened and where Christians go from here. Eric opens with his post comparing this moment to the generals who undercut George Washington in 1776, and with Romans 8:28.Kevin McCullough of That KEVIN Show, back after his Election Day read, argues gas prices drove the result, and why he believes the church needs to be "praying twice as much as we are acting." Then Rod D. Martin, founder and CEO of Martin Capital and author of Trump's New World Re-Order (foreword by Eric...

Recorded on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2026. Dr. Willy Rice, the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention, on what our choices mean for our grandchildren and the millions of Christians he estimates may not vote, and Kevin McCullough with his Election Day read. Eric opens by saying why he believes not voting is a sin. Then Dr. Rice, pastor of Calvary Church in Clearwater, Florida, for 22 years, explains why he says pastors who stepped back from cultural issues to be more effective "lost our voice," and why he estimates around 30 million evangelicals may not vote. Eric recalls what Dietrich Bonhoeffer...

An Uber driver who wouldn't turn off the music, a viral AI video of President Trump 'unveiling' a portrait of Jesus that never happened, and former U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin on what he says he found in Jack Smith's emails. First, the ride to the airport, and why Eric prayed for that driver the whole way. Then a conservative friend's post that Eric calls antisemitic, and the "Judas" text that ended the friendship. And an AI video, posted in April 2026 and still circulating, of President Trump pulling back a curtain to reveal a portrait of Jesus. It...

Chuck Swindoll has been in ministry for 62 years, but as a boy he could barely put a sentence together. "One of my earliest memories is my mother telling me that I was a mistake," he tells Eric. By junior high he stuttered so badly he wanted to hide. Then Richard Nieme, a drama and speech teacher who had just come to Milby High School in Houston from New York, tapped him on the shoulder at his locker: "Charles, I want you in my debate class." His first response was, "Me?" Within six months he was putting sentences together, and...

Halloween is days away, and Allie Beth Stuckey has Christians arguing about horror films. On her Relatable podcast she said believers shouldn't be fans of horror in general. Is she right? Eric has strong views, and he talks it through with Ryan Bethea, creator and host of The Exorcist Files, who thinks t⭐ ORDER NOW:Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World📕: https://a.co/d/0ir3NlapTODAY'S SPONSORS:🪙 Grace Precious Metals: https://www.metaxasmetals.com/🛏️ MyPillow — Save BIG with code ERIC: https://www.mypillow.com/☀️ Chapter -- Honest, fast, and free Medicare plan guidance: http...

Dr. Mark Christian grew up in Egypt as the firstborn son of a respected physician and religious leader. He was leading prayers in mosques by age nine and later led prayers in Mecca. He studied hard to prove his faith was true, and the more he studied, the more questions he had. Asking them, he says, made him a threat to his own father. In his memoir, The Apostate: My Search for Truth, he tells what happened next: a call at dawn to his father's old medical office, a fire trap behind the door, and the stumble on a...

Pastor Allen Jackson of World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has a challenge for "spectator" Christians: stop sitting in the stands and complaining. Too many believers, he says, sit out with excuses like "I won't support Donald Trump because he doesn't talk nice, or I won't support Pete Hegseth because he has a tattoo or whatever nonsense." His answer: "I would rather be engaged." He explains why "be kind" is not the 11th commandment ("the goal isn't to be kind to wickedness; the goal is to overcome evil with good") and why prayer comes first. His new book is...

The midterms are one week away, and Eric has a warning for every Christian: "If you do not vote, your soul is in danger." John Zmirak of The Stream joins Eric to talk about what's at stake on November 3, why Eric is encouraged that the Justice Department is finally looking into Ilhan Omar, and why Zmirak says candidates like Ilhan Omar and Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed are "laughing at" Christians who stay home.First, a debate Eric has wanted to have: did Jesus have brothers and sisters? Zmirak explains that Martin Luther, the early Anglicans and "basically every Christian before...

Doctors called it schizophrenia. He believes it was demonic. Urban missionary and apologist Angelos Kyriakides tells Eric his story: he was getting high at 12, using drugs by 16, and had a breakdown at 17. He explains how a Good Will Hunting scene at 3 a.m. and a mentor who slammed a Bible on the floor finally brought him to Christ, and why he believes the West needs a public confrontation with the gospel.First, filmmaker and pastor Dimas Salaberrios, author of Street God, talks about his new thriller, Fettered, the story of a girl from the Bronx who wakes up in...

Did the Trump administration really call Putin a "humanitarian," or did the media miss the point? Rod Martin joins Eric to break down Steve Witkoff's comments after Russia freed American Stephen Hubbard, and why Eric says it's diplomacy, not praise.They also take on the media's soft treatment of Ilhan Omar after the federal search of her home, the jobs and investment boom that Larry Kudlow calls the "greatest story never told," why gas costs more than it should, and how a few votes per precinct could decide the House in the midterms.Rod explains the argument of his...

Was the childhood home of Jesus found beneath a convent in Nazareth, and why won't the scholars say it out loud? Dinesh D'Souza joins Eric to walk through the discoveries in his new book, The Stones Cry Out: Biblical Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Last Days, and his companion PragerU documentary series.Dinesh describes standing in the pit where the prophet Jeremiah was thrown and trapped in mud, and how the seals of the two officials who put him there have been dug up in Jerusalem. He tells the story of archaeologist Eilat Mazar, who used the Bible as a...

Sold in Ottoman slave markets as a teenage Christian girl, then rescued by an American, Aurora Mardiganian told the world what happened to Armenia's Christians in her 1918 memoir Ravished Armenia. Larry Alex Taunton thought her story was so important that he brought more than 100 copies to hand out after his September 11 talk, "The Cross and the Quran," which has drawn millions of views.Larry tells Eric what he has seen firsthand in Africa, the Middle East and Europe: a cleric in a Cairo bazaar spitting at a woman for wearing jeans, the phone apps where women have been sold...

Netflix's Narnia: The Magician's Nephew has Meryl Streep voicing Aslan and a reported budget of $280 million. And John Zmirak says test audiences hated it. Eric and John take on Greta Gerwig's adaptation of C.S. Lewis, why Hollywood keeps buying beloved properties only to turn them against their fans, and the one scene online critics may have gotten backwards.Then John explains why a Dallas theater's drag-queen brunch screening of The Fellowship of the Ring enraged him in a way the Narnia news didn't. He argues it's willful vandalism that mirrors exactly what Tolkien's dark lord does: twisting what...

Karl Marx is often remembered as an economist who wanted to help the poor. But John G. West of Discovery Institute says that as a young man, Marx wrote dark poetry about forfeiting heaven: "My soul, once true to God, is chosen for hell." Eric and John discuss why communism isn't merely wrong economics but, they argue, spiritually anti-Christian from A to Z, and why most Christian colleges won't teach students its history.West tells the forgotten story of "human zoos," including the young African man the Bronx Zoo put in a cage with chimpanzees as a "missing link,"...

Ben Schettler, co-founder and president of the Center for Truth in Love, set up a debate table in Washington Square Park the way Charlie Kirk did on campuses. He says park police shut him down on May 19 while a drug dealer sat untouched a few yards away. The next night a mob surrounded him, he was punched from behind, his phone was stolen and he was taken away in an ambulance.In that ambulance, he recited Psalm 56:11 — the same verse his five-year-old son Cranston was speaking that night at church in Florida: "In the Lord have I put my tr...

Ilhan Omar's home has been raided, and Eric says that's "earth shattering" because "our side doesn't do this kind of stuff unless it's legit." Strategist Rod Martin, author of the forthcoming Trump's New World Reorder, joins Eric to discuss what he says comes next, including a reported subpoena for Omar's sister over a USAID grant of about $20 million.Before that, Eric reacts to President Trump asking Kimberly Guilfoyle to step down as ambassador to Greece, and, as a proud Greek American, puts his own name forward for the job (and makes his case for returning the Elgin Marbles).Eric...

Brian Kilmeade joins Eric on the release day of his new book, Uniting the States, to tell six moments that he believes forged the American miracle. They include John Adams defending the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre, a mysterious fog that let Washington's army escape Brooklyn, Shays' Rebellion, the War of 1812, the Louisiana Purchase, and John Quincy Adams' crusade against slavery in Congress, with a young Abraham Lincoln sitting nearby.Then filmmaker Dimas Salaberrios, author of Street God, shares how he went from New York drug kingpin to follower of Christ. He says that right after his conversion...

Joe Infranco didn't initially believe what he was hearing.People with nonspeaking autism were beginning to communicate through spelling, revealing thoughts, interests and abilities that many around them never realized were there. Then some began telling Joe something even stranger: they said they could see angels, demons, Jesus and an unseen spiritual realm.Infranco, a pastor and longtime trial attorney, joins Eric to discuss his book Decoding Cody: Secrets of the Spectrum from People with Autism Who See, Hear, and Smell in the Unseen Realm. He explains why he initially considered hallucination, imagination or outside influence, and how he...

What if the greatest danger of artificial intelligence isn't that machines become more human, but that humans become more like machines?Christian apologist and author Abdu Murray joins Eric to discuss his new book Fake ID: How AI and Identity Ideology Are Collapsing Reality and What to Do About It. Abdu argues that the explosion of artificial intelligence and modern identity ideology share a deeper connection: both emerge in a culture increasingly willing to place feelings, preferences and technological power above objective reality.Eric and Abdu discuss AI deepfakes, transhumanism, whether machines can ever truly become conscious, an AI-generated...

What does it actually mean to be saved?Tim Mulgrew, author of Christian: A Contract With God: Understanding the Terms of True Salvation*, joins Eric to examine one of the most sobering warnings in Scripture: Jesus saying, “I never knew you.”Tim argues that many Christians have been taught to think salvation is simply a matter of walking an aisle, praying a prayer, getting baptized or mentally agreeing with the right beliefs. Eric and Tim discuss the difference between merely identifying as a Christian and actually being born again, why genuine faith should transform the way a person lives, and...

She escaped North Korea and eventually reached safety in South Korea. Years later, she still sleeps with her shoes beside the bed because part of her remains prepared to run.Dan Chung, Executive Director of Crossing Borders and author of *A Hard Freedom: The Dreams and Trauma of North Korean Refugees*, joins Eric to share the extraordinary stories of people who have escaped one of the world’s most repressive regimes.Dan describes North Korean women trafficked after crossing into China, a mother whose dying son asked for one final bowl of rice, a young refugee who spent two ye...

What did America’s Founders actually mean by “religious liberty”?Ryan Helfenbein of Liberty University joins Eric to discuss the Christian influences on America’s founding, the Constitution, religious liberty, and why he believes the modern understanding of religious pluralism differs significantly from the framework held by many early American leaders.Eric and Ryan also discuss the postwar changes that reshaped the public role of religion, what Ryan calls “evangelical Gnosticism,” why many churches became hesitant to engage political and cultural questions, and the relationship between Christian faith and public life.Earlier in the program, Rod Martin joins Eric to reflect o...

The viral image of a passenger duct-taped to his airplane seat only told part of the story.Billy Hallowell joins Eric with new details from interviews with two of the passengers who stepped in during the bizarre midflight incident involving Jonathan Cahn. Billy says one of the men was a retired police officer who helped restrain the passenger after the situation became physical. According to those witnesses, there was blood, the passenger bit one of the men restraining him, screamed that everyone on the plane was going to die, and continued behaving erratically after the emergency landing.Eric and...

What do the stories you loved as a child reveal about who you are today?Stephen Kent, creator of Geeky Stoics and coauthor of Great Escape: 30 Reflections on Stoicism, Faith, and the Wisdom of Great Stories, joins Eric to explore why stories from C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Star Wars and other childhood favorites can shape the way we understand courage, meaning, faith and the world around us.They discuss Tolkien’s defense of escapism, why Stoicism has become popular with young men, the search for meaning in a culture increasingly dissatisfied with nihilism, and the surprising st...

A commercial flight bound for Israel suddenly plunged after its copilot stabbed the captain, forcing passengers and crew into a desperate effort to regain control of the aircraft. Eric and Rod Martin discuss the extraordinary Flydubai incident, what it raises about airline security, and the broader changes taking place in relations between Israel and several Arab nations.Eric also reacts to Vanity Fair’s new profile of Erika Kirk and explains why the article surprised him, despite disagreeing with portions of it.Later, Rod breaks down new economic data, including record median household income, the latest poverty figures, and re...

Pat Boone joins Eric for a wide-ranging trip through more than seven decades of American music and entertainment.Pat recalls breaking into the charts in the early days of rock and roll, when Elvis Presley was once his opening act and the two spent years competing near the top of the charts. He also shares some remarkable statistics from his recording career, including his claim that he recorded roughly 2,700 songs, more than Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby.Pat tells Eric about a country song that came to him in a dream, his surprising connection to Randy Newman’s first re...

Meryl Streep is officially set to voice Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, and Eric has some serious questions about what the choice says about Hollywood’s approach to Lewis.Eric and author, educator, and filmmaker Joe LaConte discuss Aslan’s role in the Narnia stories, C.S. Lewis’s understanding of Christianity, masculinity and femininity, and why they believe modern adaptations often impose contemporary ideas on older works rather than respecting the author’s original vision.They also explore the friendship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien...

An undercover investigation in Mexico City leads to an extraordinary claim about a new way of getting into the United States.Larry Taunton joins Eric to share what he says his investigators recently discovered while looking into changing migrant routes after the U.S. border crackdown. Taunton says an undercover operative was told he could obtain an authentic U.S. biometric visa for $3,000 in just three days and even pay after the visa was issued. Taunton explains why he stopped the operation before putting his source at greater risk and says he intends to pass the information to the...

Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric and Rod Martin break down a week of major developments involving President Trump, Greenland, China, the United Nations, crime and the upcoming midterms.They discuss the newly signed U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement, what it changes in the Arctic, Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, and new FBI data showing a historic decline in violent crime. Rod also previews his forthcoming book, Trump’s New World Reorder, and explains his argument about the larger changes taking place in America’s domestic and foreign policy.⭐ ORDER NOW:Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation i...

A successful Florida attorney went out for an ordinary bicycle ride as an agnostic. He says he came home a completely different man.Jeff Childers, the creator of Coffee & Covid, joins Eric to share the extraordinary story of the vision he experienced while riding his bike, when he says he suddenly confronted every sin he had ever committed. The experience led him to pray, begin attending church, and radically change the direction of his life.He and Eric also discuss why Jeff spent years studying what the Bible says about fear and worry before Covid arrived, how the pandemic...

John West joins Eric to discuss Cornerstone University’s new core curriculum and why he believes Christian higher education needs to recover a serious understanding of the Bible, Western civilization, and the American founding.West explains why Cornerstone students will study primary sources including the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, Christian sermons, Frederick Douglass, Marx, and other influential thinkers. Eric and John also discuss the Plymouth Colony, property rights, natural law, Christianity’s influence on American ideas of human dignity and liberty, and a recent survey showing widespread disagreement over where Americans’ rights come from.⭐ ORDER NOW:Revolution: The Birt...

Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Megan Basham joins Eric to discuss the growing battle over artificial intelligence, regulation, and the money being spent to influence the debate.Megan explains why she is skeptical when major AI companies ask the federal government to regulate them and discusses reporting that she says revealed funding flowing to journalists and Christian organizations, including The Gospel Coalition, for AI-related content. She argues that the central issue is not simply who received funding, but whether audiences were clearly told about it.Eric and Megan also discuss China, AI alarmism, the potential benefits of new...

Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, James Lindsay joins Eric one year after Charlie Kirk’s memorial to reflect on Charlie’s Christian faith, his influence on the conservative movement, and the divisions that have emerged since his death.Eric and James discuss Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, disagreements within the political right, the upcoming midterms, and what they believe Charlie would be focused on if he were still here.Later, Ken Fish joins Eric to share recent stories from his ministry, including a deeply traumatized former prisoner in Australia and a woman who Ken says experienced relief from 20 years of t...

Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Seth Gruber joins Eric to discuss his new book and documentary The Last Stand: Christ Or Chaos? The War For The West.Seth argues that Western civilization is approaching a critical moment and points to a 1934 study he says found a recurring pattern linking sexual norms to the rise and decline of civilizations. He explains why he sees 1973 as a major turning point for America and why he believes Christians must recover a much more active understanding of their role in society.Eric and Seth also revisit the history of Athanasius, the early...

Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric shares the possible answer to a mystery that has puzzled him for months. Eric and Suzanne independently witnessed nearly the same startling sight on the same day: a hawk holding a dove in its talons, once in Connecticut and once in Manhattan.After returning from Greece and rereading Homer’s Odyssey, Eric discovered a strikingly similar bird sign in the ancient story, where it is interpreted as a warning that Odysseus is returning and justice is coming. Ken Fish joins Eric to discuss whether experiences like this can be interpreted as signs fr...

Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Jonathan Cahn joins Eric to tell his account of the viral midair incident involving a passenger who was eventually restrained with duct tape and forced the flight to make an emergency landing.Cahn says the two men had been having a friendly conversation for hours before the subject turned to Jesus and experiences Cahn believes demonstrate God’s reality. According to Cahn, the passenger’s demeanor then changed dramatically, eventually escalating into profanity, threats, physical confrontation, and a struggle over Cahn’s laptop. Eric and Jonathan discuss why they believe the incident had a spir...

Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Rod Martin joins Eric to break down the major forces reshaping America and the world. Rod explains why he believes Iran is trying to hold out until the U.S. midterms, what he thinks President Trump intends to do about the Iranian regime, and how Trump is reshaping America’s relationships with allies and adversaries.Eric and Rod also discuss the fight over artificial intelligence, why Rod believes major AI companies are using safety fears to push regulation that would hurt open-source competitors, the controversy surrounding data centers, America’s $40 trillion debt, and the...

Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Dinesh D’Souza joins Eric to discuss his new book The Stones Cry Out and the archaeological evidence he believes supports the historical reliability of the Bible.Dinesh and Eric discuss discoveries connected to King David, the Exodus, Balaam, Belshazzar, Jericho, Caiaphas, and the world of Jesus. They also explore why Dinesh believes biblical archaeology has increasingly forced skeptics to retreat from claims that major biblical people and events were simply invented, and why he sees the growing number of discoveries as especially significant in a secular age.Later, Grace Precious Metals CEO Bi...