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Eric Metaxas to Speak at Acton Institute’s 22nd Annual Dinner
Eric Metaxas to Speak at Acton Institute’s 22nd Annual Dinner
Dec 21, 2024 9:24 PM

The Acton Institute is pleased to announce that Eric Metaxas, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy will be the keynote speaker for our 22nd Annual Dinner.

Metaxas has written for such eclectic outlets as VeggieTales, Chuck Colson, and the New York Times. He is a best-selling author whose biographies, children’s books, and works of popular apologetics have been translated into German, Albanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Turkish, Galician, French, Complex Chinese, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Polish, and Macedonian. The Hartford Courant has declared figuring him out “like trying to stick a pushpin in a cyclone.”

Rev. Robert A. Sirico, president of Acton, will also be giving a special address.

The dinner will be held on October 24, 2012 from 6:00pm – 10:00pm at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

For more information or to register for the event, click here.

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