[Metaxes] is also the author of the Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God (but were afraid to ask) apologetics trilogy, which has been praised by Dick Cavett (“Stylish and entertaining…Metaxas deserves a prize”) and Pastor Tim Keller (“The difficulty is not to gush.”)

On Monday, March 5th at 7 PM, Socrates in the City will present a very special debate featuring noted author and Christian apologist Dinesh D’Souza and self-proclaimed agnostic Bart D. Ehrman at The New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street (at Central Park West). Titled GOD, SUFFERING & EVIL.

The event will be hosted by bestselling author and Founder of Socrates in the City, Eric Metaxas. Just last month, Metaxas was the keynote speaker at the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast for President Obama and the First Lady. Past speakers at that annual event have included such varied and distinguished luminaries as Mother Teresa, Bono and Tony Blair. Among the VIPs set to attend GOD, SUFFERING & EVIL include legendary TV talk show host Dick Cavett, and Mark St. Germain with Carolyn Rossi Copeland, author and producer respectively for Off-Broadway’s smash hit play Freud’s Last Session.

In GOD, SUFFERING & EVIL, D’Souza and Ehrman will face off in a clash of ideas regarding the age old question, “If God is omnipotent and all good, why does he permit evil and suffering in the world?”

The World Affairs Council lists Dinesh D’Souza as one of the nation’s 500 leading authorities on international issues. Newsweek cited him as one of the country’s most prominent Asian Americans. A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D’Souza’s books include Godforsaken, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, Life After Death: The Evidence, What’s So Great about Christianity, The Enemy at Home, Letters to a Young Conservative, The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence, Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, The End Of Racism, and Illiberal Education.

D’Souza is the President of The Kings College in downtown Manhattan……He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983.’
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Eric Metaxas is the author of two New York Times bestselling biographies: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery……Metaxas is the Founder of Socrates in the City, a Manhattan speakers series on “Life, God, and other small topics…”

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