Generations Radio

Although the field of medicine has produced many lifesaving procedures and researchers continue to discover new ways to improve health. The medical field is also home to many abuses. Many of the most commonly prescribed drugs are for high cholesterol, but how are so called “normal” levels or “high” levels determined? The drug used to treat the condition often produces debilitating side effects, so is “high” cholesterol more dangerous than being treated for high cholesterol? Many of the medical protocols for therapy are based on a one size fits all approach, but what if you are not that one size? Threat of law suites, AMA protocols and government legislation, may force all patients into the Procrustean bed of medical treatment. And most frighteningly many doctors now believe they have the authority to force therapy on patients and are willing to use the courts to do so. Dave Buehner talks to Steve Vaughan, a medical professional and business owner in the health field, about the law of unintended consequences in medical practice.

There has been much written and said about global warming (or is that climate change?) and the corresponding rise in “natural” calamities. Dave Buehner and Steve Vaughan attempt to answer many questions about the hysteria including: Is the Earth getting warmer and how could an honest scientist tell? If the temperature is changing what would be the mechanism and the cause? What should our reaction be to news of catastrophe? We turn to Amos the minor prophet to Old Testament Israel to provide Biblical principles for evaluating and responding to the current global warnings.

Most people have noticed that society and culture have become increasingly rude and uncivil. As America throws off its Christian underpinnings it loses both the motivation to act civil and the method to act with meekness and manners. Dave Buehner is joined by Steve Vaughan to discuss a culture of rudeness and the antidote found in the Word of God.

Robert Baird wrote in 1855 that there was no subject on which American Christians are more happily united than that of the proper observance of the Sabbath. Not anymore. Most people are good with nine commandments, but there is that Number Four that doesn’t quite fit into their paradigm! Kevin Swanson interviews Dan Horn on his new book, Keeping the Sabbath.

Thanks to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Brazil continues efforts to eradicate home education in that country. More erosion in parental freedoms now appears in the area of medical decisions. Kevin Swanson interviews attorney Will Estrada concerning the present battles in Michigan, Brazil, and Washington, D.C.

The average family eats together 3 times a week (out of 21 meals)! That’s less than the 5 school lunches shared with a peer group each week. How do we put together a functional family when everything around them is some version or other of dysfunctionality? Where do we find patterns to help us? Kevin Swanson interviews Doug Phillips on his “Family Strategies.” How do you cultivate music tastes? How do we address “Jive Talk” in the home? What does a road trip look like? And what about movies? Here’s a practical interview that is chock-full of great ideas for your family.

While 70% of young men fail to grow up by 30 years of age (up from 30% in 1970), there is another paradigm working in families across America. Fathers are training sons in entrepreneurism. Here's the story of a homeschooled 17-year-old son who runs a Daz Bog Coffee Shop in the day time, and catches up on his Physics and Calculus work in the evenings after the shop closes. Kevin Swanson interviews Tim Leonard on how he mentors his son into the business world. Here is another hopeful example of father-son discipleship, family economy, and self-motivated, visionary young men!

Julie Duin is the Religion Editor for the Washington Post. She has monitored the rapid changes in the Christian church over the last four decades, and she has a hand on its pulse. The younger generations are quitting church. But are they quitting on faith? Perhaps the positive side of this is that the fake, superficial faith of previous generations is fading fast. Here is a thought-provoking interview you do NOT want to miss!

Kevin Swanson reports on the homosexual terrorism against churches and the attempts of the Obama Administration to regulate the appointment of ministers in the Lutheran Church. Pressures are increasing on churches and church schools. Several pastors and administrators from Colorado Springs are in trouble in relation to Colorado’s Mandatory Reporting Law for “suspected abuse.” Increased sexual deviance in our society is undermining trust, morals, and freedom! Kevin Swanson reviews the biblical ethical framework for mandatory reporting.

Washington is a victim of pragmatism, party politics, moral relativism, and existentialist, debt-based systems. How much longer will we sustain this present system? That’s hard to say, but Kevin Swanson suggests that it is time to start laying down foundations on principle for our children and our children’s children. Out in Colorado, the faithful (a few homeschool graduates, as it turns out) gather on the west steps of the Capitol for a press conference. They are announcing Round 3 for the Personhood Amendment in this state!