The On The Bookshelf Podcast

interview-Stacia McKeever with a beautiful book to explain to kids about DNA and how babies grow in the womb

This year this interview runs on Mother's Day on WTBF, which is certainly appropriate. The author and her friend Georgia Purdue (who holds a PhD in Molecular Genetics) explain the basics of DNA, its significance in determining whether a baby is a girl or a boy, and shows the week-by-week growth of a child in the womb (and it is a human being. It would not turn into anything else, so that antique illustration which was an invention of a dedicated evolutionist is still false.) This beautiful book illustrates the baby as a being uniquely and personally designed by a loving Creator.

interview--Exploring the Holocaust-How Could It Happen?

Dr. Dan McMillan was curious about why Germany, a bastion of learning and science, was the place where the unique horror of the Holocaust was born and carried out. He earned a PhD in German history, and brings a scholar's eye to the conditions in the relatively new nation of Germany that led to it. A declining moral code, an anger over how Germany was blamed for WWI and punished financially for it, how the political chaos of post-Bismarck Germany coupled with the war destabilized it and led to bitter factional warfare, fear over the communists success in Russia, Hitler's ascension from national figure to messiah, bad science of eugenics and its racist foundation, plus growing anti-Semitism, combined for a horrible storm.

interview-”Unsung Patriots”-Black American Hero Warriors

US Army veteran Gene Betit shares the stories of brave men and women who fought prejudice in their own nation's military while fighting an external enemy in America's wars. 

interview-Tosca Lee’s novel on the Bataan Death March--”The Long March Home”

Acclaimed novelist Tosca Lee paints a powerful portrait of three young mobile, Ala. men who rush to enlist, and get sent to Manilla. Everything is wonderful until Dec. 8, 1941, when the Japanese begin their massive invasion. When the US and Filipino forces surrender, they are treated with disdain and neglect as they are forced into the infamous Bataan Death March. The punishment and torment they endure as POW brothers-in-arms who are determined to survive and return home, is incredible, horrendous. They never forget their bond, and sacrifice constantly for each other. Can any of them make it home?

interview--A Californa businessman and TV host on ”Leaving California”

Siyamak Korrami's family left Iran when he was 16 for Mexico. Two years later he went to college in California, became an American citizen, worked in China (learning his 4th language) and settled in California, only to see the state becoming overwhelmed by bad laws and ineffective leaders. Which is why half a million Californians left, and many major businesses have , too. It's a wake-up call for the former Golden State that lost a Congressional seat due to population loss over the last couple of years!