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Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas: “Spokesperson for election fraud conspiracies and an evangelist for a politicized God who would support going to battle for Donald Trump”

John Fea   |  November 23, 2022

“On the Media” podcast tackles Eric Metaxas and Salem Media. It’s well done. The first episode shows how Salem radio hosts who refused to promote Trump were fired from the network. Ben Shapiro (once an anti-Trumper), Joe Walsh, and Michael...

What are the court evangelicals saying about Trump’s announcement last night?

John Fea   |  November 16, 2022

Unfamiliar with the term court evangelical? Read this. It is worth noting that Trump said nothing about evangelicals and very little about the moral issues they deem important during his speech last night. I did not see many court evangelicals...

If GOP candidates lose, Eric Metaxas and Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell will find fraud

John Fea   |  November 15, 2022

Here is Metaxas talking to Steve Deace of Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze: In a strange historical rant, Deace says that Christianity survived for “1700 years” because it was “subversive” and refused to “bow to Caesar.” Perhaps this is true...

In a wild conversation, Michelle Bachman and Eric Metaxas claim elections were stolen yesterday

John Fea   |  November 9, 2022

The conspiracy continues! In this interview, Metaxas says that after last night’s election it is time for Christians to think more deeply about the “biblical view of stealing.” Michelle Bachmann, the former congresswoman and presidential candidate who now serves as...

Eric Metaxas expects Doug Mastriano will win today “by divine appointment” and it will a be “miracle”

John Fea   |  November 8, 2022

Here is Metaxas discussing his experience at a Trump rally this weekend. He also attacks Atlanta pastor Andy Stanley, Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly, T.D. Jakes, and Creflo Dollar for not agreeing with his politics....

Metaxas says Biden and Pelosi are not Catholics and anyone who believes otherwise are buying into a “lie” from the “pit of hell”

John Fea   |  November 6, 2022

Metaxas showed-up at a Trump rally in LaTrobe this weekend. The Biden and Pelosi stuff starts at the 2:38 mark: My “favorite” part of this interview is at the 3:10 mark when the Trump-loving Metaxas says that “when somebody lies...

For MAGA Christians, it doesn’t matter if the founding fathers’ quote they use is true, as long as it rallies the base

John Fea   |  November 6, 2022

Dutch Sheets is a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation, a brand of charismatic evangelicalism that powers the Christian MAGA movement. Sheets leads pro-Trump prayer tours around the country, travels around with Lance Wallnau, Charlie Kirk and others where he...

Eric Metaxas believes Rick Warren, Tim Keller, and Andy Stanley are “Hitler’s favorite kind of pastors”

John Fea   |  October 31, 2022

Eric Metaxas is hawking a book that condemns evangelicals for failing to stand-up to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. He compares Biden and the Democrats to Adolph Hitler and the Nazis in the 1930s and is using his widely...

Metaxas: “God has called me to fight to the death for what is true and right”

John Fea   |  September 11, 2022

Back in April 2021, I wrote a piece at Current titled, “The Education of an Evangelical Insurrectionist.” It told the story of Tyler Ethridge, a graduate of Charis Bible College who entered the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021...

Eric Metaxas and Charlie Kirk have a Christian nationalist meltdown in the wake of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago

John Fea   |  August 14, 2022

Conservative evangelicals went crazy after the FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach. (I haven’t seen much from them after we learned Trump had classified nuclear documents). We chronicled some of the initial reaction here....

Hawley on the run

John Fea   |  July 22, 2022

Watch: Here is Phillip Bump in today’s Washington Post: Given everything that’s happened since, it’s easy to forget the role that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) played in validating Donald Trump’s effort to undermine the 2020 election results. In the weeks...

Eric Metaxas keeps pushing the Big Lie

John Fea   |  July 16, 2022

Some of the most distinguished conservative federal court justices of the past three decades just put out a 72-page report decimating claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. We wrote about that report yesterday. Meanwhile, most of the court...

Eric Metaxas is hawking a diabetes cure on Telegram

John Fea   |  April 22, 2022

Eric “Socrates in the City” Metaxas is a radio host, author, Trump court evangelical, and Fellow at Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center. He is also on a social media site call Telegram. You can check out his account here....

Debunking the Ukrainian biolabs myth promoted by Charlie Kirk and Eric Metaxas

John Fea   |  March 18, 2022

Watch Metaxas and Kirk talk about the potential of Ukrainian biolabs that might be created bioweapons and coronaviruses. This is how fear-mongering works. Kirk says that he can’t be sure about such biolabs, but that does not stop him from...

Eric Metaxas chides Tim Keller for reading too much (and other evidence of the scandal of the evangelical mind)

John Fea   |  March 17, 2022

If you want to see Mark Noll’s Scandal of the Evangelical Mind at work, watch Eric Metaxas’s interview with Lucas Miles at the annual meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters. Lucas is the author of a book titled The Christian...

The Eric Metaxas Show pushes pro-Putin propaganda. His show is little more than an outlet to promote conspiracy theories

John Fea   |  February 25, 2022

In the episode of The Eric Metaxas Show I have posted below: Eric Metaxas criticizes the “Deep State” for not welcoming Russia into the community of nations after the Fall of communism. He implies that the West is to blame...

Will Sewanee revoke the honorary degree they gave to Eric Metaxas in 2015?

John Fea   |  October 13, 2021

I am surprised to learn that Sewanee: The University of the South gave Metaxas an honorary degree in the first place, especially after his Dietrich Bonhoeffer biography was roundly panned by Bonhoeffer scholars. Now hundreds of Sewanee faculty, students, and...

Eric Metaxas wants your vote for culture warrior of the year!

John Fea   |  October 12, 2021

Christian politics at its “best.” By the way, he’s right about Candace Owen. Last year she beat out Alan Sears, founder of Alliance Defending Freedom; actor Gary Sinise; Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA; Abby Johnson, pro-life advocate; and...

Tweet of the day

John Fea   |  September 10, 2021

Metaxas and pro-Trump worship leader Sean Feucht are gearing-up for this event in Washington D.C....

Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center just released the summer issue of its journal “Reclaiming 1776.” Let’s take a look.

John Fea   |  August 29, 2021

Liberty University president Jerry Prevo begins the journal with a quote from John Adams: Before my God, I believe the hour has come. My judgement approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and...

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