The On The Bookshelf Podcast

interview--a new historical fiction on the possible life of Barabbas

He was the man sentenced to die by the Roman Empire whose cross was taken instead by the innocent Son of Man, Jesus the Christ. Mike House explores how Barabbas "son of a father" might have started following Jesus, "the Son of THE Father".

interview-Easter 2021 on the Characters of Easter

We explore the large cast of characters involved in the Passion Week, Death and Resurrection of Jesus, with scholar Daniel Darling.

review--the incrediblke true story of composer Vernon Duke

He was considered a peer of Gershwin, a pop composer of many standards in he Great American Songbook such as "April in Paris", "Autumn in New York" , "Taking a Chance on Love" and "I Can't Get Started with you". But he was also a very successful composer of classical literature under his given name, Vladimir  Dukelsky! He was a Russian immigrant in the post-WWI era.

interview--pre-WWII Nazi Germany's dangers for a woman journalist

Sarah Sundin brings another well-researched novel featuring an American female journalist threatened by the anti-semitism in late 1930s Germany, and of her friend, an American professor researching a new way of teaching German to students back home. at first he admires the rapid recovery of Germany from the Great Depression, but later he realizes the high cost.

interview classic--should young people in love marry or wait?

Ted Cunningham challenges the notion of long engagements!