UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas

Levi asks his dad’s forgiveness, and the two are reconciled. He finishes Bible college, marries Phyllis, and begins serving the Lord as pastor. In 1972 his daughter brings home books from school that contain abhorrent teaching, and Levi starts a Christian school. The State of Ohio takes him to court and Levi fights a four-year battle to the State Supreme Court, winning the right to have his school and winning his adversary to the cause. Still teaching Bible study at 80.

Lloyd grows up in an Orthodox Jewish family. He joins the army at nineteen to escape his domineering mother. His bi-polar disorder manifests itself in the army and he gets two courts martial. His father hospitalizes him. From then on Lloyd periodically sees a psychiatrist. While manic, Lloyd can’t control his impulses to run away or gamble in Las Vegas. Gambling and infidelity destroy his first marriage and threaten his second one. At age 73 he meets a pastor who invites him to church. Finally, Lloyd receives Christ at 77. Still active in church at 81.

Dwight’s family is poor and he is ridiculed in school for his southern accent. He becomes a rebel, fighting and being suspended from school, drinking, smoking pot and stealing. He joins the army at 17 and fights in Vietnam, but gets three courts martial. Ashamed that the army wants to dump him, he asks for another chance. On leave at home, his parents are born-again, but he refuses salvation. Finishes his tour in Nam, goes home and his brother is saved. After a car wreck, he gives his life to Christ. A pastor for 30 years.

Rebellious and wild, Greg worships his older brother who teaches him to fight. When he disappoints his brother, Greg becomes self-destructive, injecting drugs with his cousin. Treatment doesn’t help, talking with the pastor doesn’t help. He marries Tammy, and they are invited to revival at church, where Greg gives his life to Christ. Now an evangelist.

Larry confesses Christ at age twelve to escape hell, but lust for fame as a rock music star leads him into immorality and drugs. He leaves his wife and children, becomes a dealer of cocaine. When the law closes in, he cooperates, quits the band, marries his girlfriend and takes a respectable job. A man at work witnesses to him. Larry’s parents pray for him, and he is sentenced to six months work release, after which he receives Christ. His new wife leaves him, but he is remarried and they are evangelists together.

Born three months after her mother leaves her father, Brianna’s innocence is compromised by her drunken father. Overweight, she spends time in a bar and becomes boy-crazy at fourteen. Has an affair, gets pregnant and has an abortion. When she goes to college, she becomes promiscuous, has another abortion, then tries to straighten up. Finally, goes to church and gives her life to Christ. She goes to Bible college, marries and describes the difficulties of having an autistic son. Now has a jail ministry.

With an overly critical mother, Heather grows up feeling worthless. Her marriage at fifteen fails, and her parents put her in a girls’ school where she has an affair, which ends badly, leaving her physically and emotionally sick. She gets her GED, joins the Navy and marries at 18. Her husband drinks and is abusive. They divorce in spite of having two children, which Heather leaves with her parents while she lives a debauched life with other women. Finally, a Christian at work witnesses to her and she prays for salvation. She takes care of her mother before death, and has served the Lord since 1978.

Grady witnesses the drinking and violence of his parents. While drunk, his dad threatens to shoot the family with his shotgun. But Grady goes to church and trusts God. He loses faith when his dad beats him for obedience. At age 12 Grady gets a BB-gun and accidentally shoots himself, blinding one eye. Both his parents get saved, and Grady goes to the altar, hoping God will restore his sight. He turns from God when his hope is dashed. Ridiculed at school, he becomes bitter and hangs out with bullies. The first part ends when Grady rebels and starts drinking and using drugs.

Grady works as a logger and meets Bridgett. He leads her into marijuana smoking and they fight. When his mother is dying of cancer, he prays for her healing but she dies, and Grady is bitter at God. At work a new mechanic is hostile and the two men become locked in a bitter and deadly fight. Grady marries Bridgett. A tree falls on him and, fearing death, he gives his life to God.. Still disabled, he is now a chaplain in prison ministry.

When he is seven, Sidney’s parents have a bitter, contested divorce and he is left confused and angry. They live with grandparents. He rebels against church and family, smokes pot and cuts school. Expelled at sixteen, he works as a plumber by day, taunts the police at night. At nineteen he brawls with seven deputies and goes to jail, but is put on parole. He gets hooked on cocaine, steals and can’t hold a job. Tries rehab and fails. Finally, he lives with his mother in Georgia. A man at work reads the Bible to him. Sidney goes to church and prays for salvation. Now married and a step-grandfather.