WINONA LAKE – The annual Kosciusko Right to Life Banquet is at the Orthopedic Capital Center on Sept. 24.
Tickets are $20 per person. The event is from 6 to 8:45 p.m.
For tickets, checks can be payable to KCRTL, P.O. Box 1162, Warsaw, IN 46581, or tickets can be ordered online at www.kcrtl.org or call 574-267-3481.
Eric Metaxas is the keynote speaker for this year’s event.
The evening will also include the annual KCRTL update and highlight plans for the upcoming year.
Fulfilling the role of MC for the evening will be political analyst Pat Miller.
Jeff Van Houten will once again provide piano selections before the banquet and during dinner. Caterer for the dinner will be Our Father’s House.
Metaxas has written for VeggieTales, Chuck Colson and the New York Times.
Metaxas grew up in Danbury, Conn., attending the public schools there, and graduated from Yale University.
From 1988-1992, Metaxas was editorial director and head writer for Rabbit Ears Productions, writing more than 20 children’s videos and books.
Metaxas was for two years a writer and editor for Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint, a nationally syndicated daily radio program with more than 400 stations and a weekly audience of five million.
He then worked as a writer for VeggieTales. He has been frequently featured as a cultural commentator on CNN and the Fox News Channel; and has discussed his own books on C-Span’s Book TV and Hannity & Colmes.
He has been featured on many radio programs, including NPR’s Morning Edition and Talk of the Nation, Hugh Hewitt, the Bob Grant Show, Janet Parshall’s America, Monica Crowley and The Alan Colmes Show.
He is the founder and host of Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life, a monthly event of “entertaining and thought-provoking discussions on life, God, and other small topics.”
He has debated at the Oxford Union and speaks widely on a variety of topics.
He was this past year the featured speaker at the Louisiana Governor’s Prayer Breakfast in Baton Rouge.
In 2007 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the British-American Project, the only person ever to have been afforded this privilege.
Metaxas gave a keynote address at President Obama’s 2012 National Prayer Breakfast.
His speech included linking previous attitudes among churchgoers toward slavery and Nazism with those of some present day churchgoers toward abortion.
His biography, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery was published by HarperSanFrancisco, and is the “official companion book” to the feature film, also titled Amazing Grace.
