The Eric Metaxas Show

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 said about pastors outside the Confessing Church.Kevin McCullough, host of That KEVIN Show and a Townhall.com columnist, on the House and Senate seats in play, the races in Texas, Michigan, Florida, Ohio and New York, what he says doesn't change even if Republicans lose, and the early returns he's watching: South Carolina, Maine and Florida. Plus the three-word text he says he got from Erika Donalds that morning (Kevin's account).⭐ 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: https://askchapter.com/metaxas/🦅 Patriot Mobile -- America's ONLY Christian Conservative Wireless Provider: https://patriotmobile.com/partners/metaxas🏛️ Socrates in the City CRUISE: https://socratesinthecity.com/cruise/LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@ericmetaxas#EricMetaxas #TheEricMetaxasShow #News #PoliticsChapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.

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 never happened: the real footage, from a March 2025 Fox News tour, shows the Declaration of Independence. "If you have to lie and play that game, you know you're not serving Jesus." Co-host Chris Himes adds his own run-in with what he calls spiritual warfare, and Eric explains why Jesus is the only answer to real evil.Ed Martin, former director of the Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group and former interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, left the Justice Department in August. He talks about the 6 or 7 years he worked alongside Phyllis Schlafly, the January 6 defendants he represented pro bono, why he says "we got to finish the job," and what he says he wants for Lisa Monaco and Jack Smith. He also talks about the D.C. Bar charges against him and his new nonprofit, the Mercy Project, launching Dec. 8, to help ordinary Americans seek clemency.Eric's new book, Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World, is available wherever books are sold. Sign up for Eric's newsletter at ericmetaxas.com. Learn more at socratesinthecity.com.⭐ 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: https://askchapter.com/metaxas/🦅 Patriot Mobile -- America's ONLY Christian Conservative Wireless Provider: https://patriotmobile.com/partners/metaxas🏛️ Socrates in the City CRUISE: https://socratesinthecity.com/cruise/LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@ericmetaxas#EricMetaxas #TheEricMetaxasShow #News #PoliticsChapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.

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 he played the lead in the senior play "without a stammer, stutter or fear."Now Pastor Chuck Swindoll talks with Eric about his new memoir, Awakened by Grace: The Life Story of Chuck Swindoll. He covers the Marine Corps years on Okinawa, where a mentor told him, "Of course you're a natural"; how Dallas Theological Seminary accepted him on probation and later asked him to be its fourth president; how Insight for Living began; why "the laughter should have never left the pulpit"; and his 71-year marriage to Cynthia: "I tell her I love her every night."Chuck Swindoll is the founder of Insight for Living, the founding pastor of Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas, and a former president of Dallas Theological Seminary. Awakened by Grace (Thomas Nelson) is available wherever books are sold. Learn more at insight.org. Sign up for Eric's newsletter at ericmetaxas.com.⭐ 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: https://askchapter.com/metaxas/🦅 Patriot Mobile -- America's ONLY Christian Conservative Wireless Provider: https://patriotmobile.com/partners/metaxas🏛️ Socrates in the City CRUISE: https://socratesinthecity.com/cruise/LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@ericmetaxas#EricMetaxas #TheEricMetaxasShow #News #PoliticsChapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.

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: https://askchapter.com/metaxas/🦅 Patriot Mobile -- America's ONLY Christian Conservative Wireless Provider: https://patriotmobile.com/partners/metaxas🏛️ Socrates in the City CRUISE: https://socratesinthecity.com/cruise/- - -LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@ericmetaxas#EricMetaxas #TheEricMetaxasShow #News #PoliticsChapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.

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 rug that he and Eric believe saved his life. Then, in the back of an ambulance, came the decision that changed everything: "I will follow Jesus, God of love."Eric was handed this book at an event and couldn't put it down. Here's why. And if you know someone who is quietly asking hard questions about their faith, Eric says, share this so they know they're not crazy.Dr. Mark Christian (a pen name) is the founder of Global Faith Institute in Omaha, Nebraska, and the president of the Truth and Freedom Foundation. The Apostate: My Search for Truth (Fidelis Publishing) is available at bookstores and Amazon. Global Faith: globalfaith.org. Sign up for Eric's newsletter at ericmetaxas.com.⭐ 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: https://askchapter.com/metaxas/🦅 Patriot Mobile -- America's ONLY Christian Conservative Wireless Provider: https://patriotmobile.com/partners/metaxas🏛️ Socrates in the City CRUISE: https://socratesinthecity.com/cruise/00:00 Eric on the Book He Couldn't Put Down02:56 Dr. Mark Christian Joins Eric04:04 The Apostate: My Search for Truth05:14 A Physician's Son Leading Prayers at Nine08:24 Like the Apostle Paul09:07 Leading Prayers in Mecca10:05 Grace vs. Works11:54 Punished at Five for a Movie13:34 What He Was Taught About God16:59 Choosing a Loving God19:16 The Grand Narrative of His Story19:54 He Studied to Prove It. He Found the Opposite22:21 Why Asking Questions Was Dangerous23:03 The Biggest Question of All27:05 "Afraid Beyond Words"28:16 Why He Wrote The Apostate29:47 To Anyone With Doubts: You're Not Crazy30:40 A Father and Son32:27 Like Luther: Seeing the Abyss33:37 The Night on the Balcony36:06 "I Became a Threat"37:52 The Call at Dawn39:18 The Trap Behind the Door41:46 "A Miracle of God"42:35 A Message at the Hospital43:25 In the Back of the Ambulance44:27 Where to Find The Apostate- - -LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@ericmetaxas#EricMetaxas #TheEricMetaxasShow #News #PoliticsChapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.