The On The Bookshelf Podcast

interview--Teaching English in Post-Cold War Slovakia

Dr. Chris Shaffer shares his experiences as a young History Ed grad who had a chance to teach English in Eastern Europe as the Iron Curtain came crashing down and Czechoslovakia had an amicable "divorce". His six months in Slovakia taught him a great deal about how the rest of the world lives and how much the people of Eastern Europe were oppressed under communism.

interview--Bodie Hodge on Dragons & Dinosaurs with a Biblical perspective

Could dragons have been real creatures who recently became extinct? Are they the same animals as what we started calling "dinosaurs" less than 200 years ago? What evidence does the Bible offer and who are the credible witnesses outside the Scriptures?

interview--Every November, we remember the death of a President

Nov. 22, 1963--we heard it on the radio, saw the aftermath on TV. Someone murdered our President in broad daylight, in front of hundreds of witnesses. Was it a lone nut, or something more sinister? Charles Brandt's new book, "Suppressing the Truth in Dallas" (PostHill Press) proves that "but for" the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Mafia would not have authorized any of these 1963 murders. Among those with reason to suppress the truth: Chief Justice Earl Warren, a political hack who muscle himself into one of the most powerful jobs on the planet.

interview--Bette Dickinson’s powerful artwork and writing in ”Making Room in Advent”

Bette Dickinson writes, "I wrote this book because I was completely captivated by the mystery of the Incarnation. I wanted to capture the beauty of how God works through the stories of Zechariah, Elizabeth, Mary, and the others both in the pairings and in the text." She succeeds brilliantly in creating a book and illustrations that open your eyes to the majesty of Emmanuel, God with us, God in human flesh. These "25 devotions for a Season of Wonder" will touch your heart and soul.

interview for Vet’s day--The Cactus Air Force on Guadalcanal

Renowned best-selling historian and author Tom Cleaver explores the incredible sacrifice of the US Marine and Navy fliers who flew forth every day in planes that were patched-up from Henderson Field. It was strafed and bombed practically every day for three months by the Japanese Imperial Navy fliers in the desperate battle for the Solomon Island chain in the South Pacific. For the Allies to lose would mean a Japanese invasion of Australia and New Zealand; an Allied victory would stop the forward-movement of the Japanese Imperial military. That's just what it did.