mr. metaxas is the or author of many books including "everything you wanted to know about god but were afraid to request." and "if you can keep it: the forgotten promise of american profrty." >> host: eric metaxas, in your current book, "if you can keep it," you talk about the golden triangle of freedom. what is that? >> guest: you're just leapingta right in, aren't you? hi, peter.

mr. metaxas right there at the top of our page.ou can make a comment, right under that and will filter through those as well. finally you can send an e-mail to booktv at c-span.org. we will be here for the next two and half hours and looking forward to talking to you and argue about some of the issues that mr. metaxas is been talking about. you mention 1988 as your jesus freak moment. what happened? >> guest: it's the kind of thing had been trained at yale and in media generally watching tv and movies that people have those kind of expenses like you basically want to avoid them. i would think everything i could to avoid serious christians because i've been taught they are just crazy. when something like that happens to you and put you in a tough spot. you say now what do i do? is like the guy who saw bigfoot. now what do i do? my friends laugh at me except it happened. what do i do? i had a dream in 1988. i really had been quite lost. i moved back and reflect pears. i always joke around if you're going to move back in with your par

mr. metaxas is the or author of many books including "everything you wanted to know about god but were afraid to request." and "if you can keep it: the forgotten promise of american profrty." >> host: eric metaxas, in your current book, "if you can keep it," you talk about the golden triangle of freedom. what is that? >> guest: you're just leapingta right in, aren't you? hi, peter. i have to tell you, people always ask me how i write my books, and my newest book, the book on luther is coming out in just a couple of weeks, but for the last year i've been talking about america. and at the very heart of it is this concept of the golden triangle of freedom.ut but what i find funny is that i'd never heard of it, no one's ever heard of it. .. dear friend of mine alec guinness wrote a book calleda free people's philistine . >> every one of them understood this concept and i thought i have got to do more to get this out because one book comes out. i didn't know i would write a book about it, it ended up being a book, the golden triangle of freedom, can i explain briefly? all the founders understood t

mr. metaxas live sunday at noon eastern on booktv's "in depth" on c-span2. >> does anyone else have an experience you'd want to share? tyrone asks about his medication again, and cynthia deflects. the conversation turns to drugs and alcohol when tyrone instead begins talking about getting arrested for smoking a blunt. everyone except the wallflower patient has something to say about drugs. may i say something minor, asks manny, during a pause in the discussion. sure, cynthia nods. i don't mean to take up everyone's valuable time in the group. i know i don't deserve it. thank you so much for letting me speak. georgia mel sighs in frustration. you're fine, man, just talk. thank you, thank you. it's just that i struggled with alcohol for so long, almost 40 years now, and i've been sober since getting locked up. i hope so badly that i can stay clean when i get out. he seems to be a little more comfortable now and so continues talking. he tells us about being whipped against the wall as a 7-year-old when he didn't do a good enough job cleaning up the mess from his father's partying the the night befor