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  • Published: 15 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9781400071012
  • Imprint: Christian/Forum
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $38.00

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about God (But Were Afraid to Ask)



The pithy and practical primer on Christian faith by #1 New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas is now updated and reissued with a fresh cover and all-new introduction.

Who doesn’t have questions about God? But where in the world can you go to get answers? 

Eric Metaxas has been there, so he gets it. Which is why he’s written this shockingly down-to-earth book on the big questions everyone asks (but not always out loud).

Totally conversational and sometimes flat-out hilarious, this book asks:

* How can a good God create a world that has evil and suffering?
* Is God anti-sex?
* Doesn’t science make God obsolete?
* What’s the real story on miracles?
* If God is everywhere, why go to church?
* Don’t we already have God within us?
* Isn’t God too busy running the universe to care about the details of my day?

These questions (and many more) get no-nonsense answers that don’t hide behind dull theological language. So get the lowdown (and more than a few laughs) on what are probably the most important questions anyone has.

  • Published: 15 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9781400071012
  • Imprint: Christian/Forum
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $38.00

About the author

Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas has written numerous award-winning and best-selling children’s books, as well as scripts for VeggieTales videos. A graduate of Yale University, his writing has been published in Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Books & Culture, and featured on Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint radio program. He is a popular guest on various radio and television programs and lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

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Praise for Everything You Always Wanted to Know about God (But Were Afraid to Ask)

–Chuck Colson, founder and chairman of Prison Fellowship

“Eric Metaxas has written a book about God based on questions that people are actually asking. His answers are pithy, practical, often funny (who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor?), and true. This is a splendidly unconventional introduction to the Christian faith.”

–John Wilson, editor of Books & Culture

“An excellent primer on the most important questions of life, engagingly presented in question-and-answer format. A timely and useful book for a searching, spiritually hungry America.”

–George Gallup, Jr., founding chairman of the George H. Gallup International Institute

“Finally, a book of apologetics you can give your friends without cringing!”

–Lauren Winner, author of Girl Meets God and Mudhouse Sabbath

“Quick, witty, engaging, and often profound. These are words I use to describe my friend and one-time colleague Eric Metaxas. This little book is vintage Metaxas. Good and profitable reading.”