The On The Bookshelf Podcast

interview--Singer Debby Boone on her new Swing This CD and live show

Debby Boone, whose "You Light Up My Life" is the #7 Billboard Magazine song of all time (and launched her solo career), has explored many musical genres. She has been doing a tribute show to her late mother-in-law, Rosemary Clooney, but her latest is a Vegas-style show filled with great songs and great stories. (She learned to love the glamor and excitement of Vegas shows when her father, the legendary singer Pat Boone, played Vegas in the 1960s and took his young family along.) Here she talks about her new CD taken from her Vegas show. she is still a wonderful singer, and a very nice person!

interview-Short-Term Missions and Pro-Life Centers

Melissa Heiland and her husband went to Costa Rico in 1988 to be full-time missionaries. after a year they felt they were being called back to the US to start "Beautiful Feet International", and have been organizing and facilitating short0term mission trips across the globe. The organization also has set up 58 women's pro-life health centers across the world in 19 nations, from Central and South America to central and South Africa to India. Her book, "Get Set for Short-Term Missions" is in a new edition from Hendrickson Publishing.

interview--a new way forward for Overcoming Racial Division

Dr. George Yancey brings new insight and a way to open meaningful and constructive dialogue as Christians of different ethnicities.

interview classic--the Other side of our Revolution

Thomas Allen told of the "Tories: Fighting for the ing in America's First Civil War". after all, one-third of the American colonies were loyal British subjects throughout the Revolutionary War. Many of them moved to Canada afterward, which help birth that nation, too!

interview-Ken Ham on the first 11 chapters of Genesis

Here's a family commentary which explains many of the questions often asked about the Creation, if evolution can be reconciled with the Biblical account, sin, dinosaurs, how many years old is Earth,all the way to the Tower of Babel. Ken Ham is one of the world's most renowned biblical apologists for young-earth creation, the CeO and founder of answers in Genesis-US, the highly acclaimed Creation Museum and the world renowned ark Encounter. He has sold over 3 million copies of his impressive collection of more than 25 best-selling adult and children's books focused on the relevance and authority of the Book of Genesis. It is the foundation of Christian doctrine!