Wes Young Writer

East and Wes is back for Season 2! This premiere episode looks at the Church as a real and relevant player in current events. Most of Season 2 will feature interviews with Georgia pastors (interviews I am very excited to share), but this first episode is my own preliminary examination of the state of the Church, and the often erroneous popular perspectives concerning believers.

Storytelling is so much more than entertainment. This storytelling episode, “Live from Waleska,” gives a taste of my new novel as presented at Reinhardt University in Waleska, GA on July 9, 2020. *NOTE: The Georgia Outdoor News website (referenced in this episode) is www.gon.com. You can find all my published work at www.wesyoungwriter.com.

"In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil" (2 Chronicles 15:5). Take a self inventory. At what point, for you, would enough be enough? And if that point came, what would you do about it? "But in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, and he was found by them" (2 Chronicles 15:4).

Who (or what) steers the ship of our culture? And how, exactly? This stand-alone bonus episode of East and Wes includes a recording of my recent lecture at Reinhardt University on allegory, literature, and C. S. Lewis. We need to wake up to the forces making us who we are.

An ugly smoke is rising from the streets of America. This special stand-alone bonus episode of East and Wes provides an honest look at our culture and a spiritual perspective on our condition. Best of all this episode faces the glaring question: What should we do now?

If even a mildly-moral human had God’s power, he could govern things better than at present, right? Our divine ruler, if he exists at all, seems to be doing a poor job, so troubled is our present world. This season finale of East and Wes explores the truth about this complaint, and the hope that replaces the lie. God wants mankind to get it, together.

When parents aren’t doing their jobs, then what? This sixth episode of East and Wes explores the heavy burden society faces in light of negligent or non-present parents. The question of who should step in to fill the parental role, and when, and to what extent, is riddled with complications. In a final segment of the three-part “Principal Parents” topic, we’ll look at the hard facts and the difficult decisions.

As the shutdowns remind us that all kids—COVID or not—are actually and always homeschooled, it’s high time we look at the industrialized model of schools, and how parents as the true headmasters of their children’s education can make the machine meaningful. This fifth episode of East and Wes will help parents and nonparents, students and teachers, young and old, explore what education really means.

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The mass shutdown of public schools awakens a question worth asking, COVID or no COVID: Whose responsibility is it to educate a child? The ever-expanding reach of schools into the lives of children, the time and more time that kids spend at school and school-related events, often leads to a misconception about the molding of our youth. This fourth episode of East and Wes explores this issue. The topic will actually span this episode and the next and the next, being divided into three parts.

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Mankind's natural tendency, perhaps even our original sin, is to dupe ourselves into thinking we can handle this life on our own. The lurking wish in a human mind is to be autonomous, to manage affairs our own way without that pesky Father bothering us with his directives and expectations. This third episode of East and Wes explores the need for humans to be reminded of our dependence on God, and discusses what those reminders might look like. [NOTE: Episodes 1 & 2 have been archived. To request an mp3 copy, email me at [email protected].]