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 SKIP BOWLINSKI
Skip Bowlinski is a cloying human mystery wrapped inside a greasy deep-fried conundrum. To some he is merely a nuisance, a mustachioed superfreak and unsavory oddball -- but to many others he is regarded as some kind of folk hero, someone who speaks to them and understands them in a way few others can. Who can fathom Skip?
Skip can be counted on to appear uninvited at many New Canaan Society Friday morning gatherings, and despite our rather strict and elaborate security precautions, Skip has also become a fixture at our annual retreats.
Skip is of indeterminate age and speaks in an infectious low-rent Chicago-area accent. He claims to have achieved fame in the past year with his recent campaign to become president of the United States. He suffered a loss to Barack Obama due to what Bowlinski would call a “Constitutional Mal-fraction”. Skip still plans to have influence in the new administration and has appointed himself Secretary Treasury. He has rolled out a bail-out plan for the men of the New Canaan Society.
Skip is easily identified by his eye-poppingly garish clothing and outre vulgar demeanor. His uniform, such as it is, consists of a velour smoking jacket, gold chains, and immaculately groomed mustache. And did we mention the fabulous white shoes?
Note: Skip has never been seen in the same room as Mac MacNally, who is the vice-president for Young Life and serves on the NCS national board. We are convinced this is mere coincidence. Mac is generally very well thought of and any association, however, inadvertent, with Skip, seems wildly unfair.
 ERIC METAXAS
Author and Speaker
Eric Metaxas is the New York Times-bestselling author of Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, the official companion book to the feature film, and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God (but were afraid to ask), which has been praised by Dick Cavett, George Gallup, Ann B. Davis (Alice of The Brady Bunch), and Tim Keller ("The difficulty is not to gush. ...a wise, funny, and disarming book"). Metaxas is the founder and host of Socrates in the City, a popular Manhattan speakers series on "life, God, and other small topics," and he is particularly proud to be a co-founder of the New Canaan Society.
Eric has been a staff writer for Chuck Colson's Breakpoint and for VeggieTales, where he was also the voice of the narrator on the Esther video. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Christianity Today, National Review Online, Beliefnet, and First Things. He is the author of 30 children's books, including the bestselling Squanto & the Miracle of Thanksgiving. Metaxas appears as a cultural commentator on CNN and the FOX News Channel and has been featured on Hannity & Colmes, NPR's Morning Edition and Talk of the Nation, and many other programs. His next book, scheduled to be released in March 2010 is a biography of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Eric lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
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