Nearly 200 residents of Moscow, a town in northern Idaho, gathered Tuesday night to discuss combating Christian nationalism, joined by a podcaster who is investigating the growing influence of Christian nationalist leader Doug Wilson in the community.
In the second season of his podcast “Extremely American,” Heath Druzin has been looking into the activities of Wilson’s Christ Church and its role in the extremist movement. Titled “Onward Christian Soldiers,” the season has already topped 1 million downloads.
Druzin explained to the crowd that Wilson, 71, who runs the Community of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a Calvinist church group, and an education empire that includes 500 “classical” Christian schools, is more influential nationally than locally.
But Christ Church, whose relationship with Moscow dates back to the 1970s, has been growing slowly over the decades. Today the church has between 800-900 members in the 25,000-person town. Those members own about 20% of the city’s downtown buildings, according to the podcast.
The church’s growth has caused a divide in the community, especially as Wilson continues to gain national attention, particularly in Christian nationalist circles.
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Tuesday’s event was hosted by the United Church of Moscow, the Latah County Human Rights Task Force and the Community Congregational United Church of Christ of Pullman, located across the state border in Washington.
“The intent of tonight’s presentation is to help educate our community about forms of extremism, its ramifications and the consequences in our community
Wilson’s Educational Empire and Local Pushback
Druzin explained that Wilson, 71, is more influential nationally than locally. Wilson runs the Community of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a Calvinist church group that has a presence coast-to-coast, and an education empire that includes 500 classical Christian schools nationally.
Druzin said the education arm is perhaps the most powerful.
“He sees them as a munitions factory,” Druzin explained. “Students are munitions, and he can change culture through students. It’s effective … and this extends to homeschool materials.”
Moscow is home to New Saint Andrews College, a private classical Christian school founded in 1994 by the church. Druzin said Wilson hopes it’s where students from his network of secondary schools end up.
Wilson also a grip on media through Canon Press, which not only publishes books, but also produces podcasts and streaming shows.
Druzin said a “kirker” as Christ Church members are called, can easily have their educational, spiritual and entertainment needs met through Wilson’s empire.
“What Doug Wilson wants to do, according to Doug Wilson, is change society; create an American theocracy,” Druzin said.
And although that’s caused tension in Moscow, Druzin said Moscow hasn’t let Wilson take over its small town.
“That’s partly because Moscow is not a very conservative place and you’ve been outspoken on that,” he told the audience, noting that Christ Church members have not found success in running for political offices locally.
The city has consistently leaned liberal, particularly when compared to neighboring Eastern Washington and rural Idaho.
Residents Urged to Stay Vigilant
The fact that nearly 200 people showed up to an at-capacity event, in the rain, was a hopeful sign, Druzin said, but he added that concerned citizens needed to stay vigilant and remain civically engaged.
“Inevitability happens when people get complacent,” he said. “Extremism is not broadly popular, but they tend to outwork their opposition. They’re more dogged about it, more patient. There’s a motivation gap.”
Joann Muneta, of the Latah County Human Rights Task Force, said it might be time for citizens to take a stronger stand if they want continue fighting against Christ Church.
“Moscow wants to solve this problem without friction. We believe in pluralism, and we believe in love and we want to stick to that, but … maybe we have to be activists,” she said.
(Photo: Geoff Crimmins/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News, CC BY-SA)
She added that she was surprised to learn people refer to Moscow as “Doug Wilson’s empire.”
“They’re looking to see how successful he’ll be in his takeover and his experiment here,” she said.
Druzin said there’s no denying Wilson is trying to make his Moscow footprint bigger, but reminded locals that he hasn’t found success.
“He’s been working to make this a Christian town for 40 years and it hasn’t happened yet. I think that’s an important fact.”
This article was originally published by FāVS News in Spokane, Washington.
Award-winning writer Tracy Simmons has been a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, and Connecticut and is a contributor to FāVS News.
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Im shocked but also not surprised how the world is fighting against Jesus. God has used this man and the city is tired of Christianity. Doug needs our prayers to be faithful and for Christ to shine in this small town through this.
The world wants Christianity without Christ. Please don’t be fooled there is no silent Christianity because that is not Christianity. Moscow Idaho is offended at people coming to Christ. Like the article said it’s more liberal town. I don’t know what Julie was trying to show here other then Doig Wilson is a man who has been used by God greatly.
Doug Wilson’s chief concern is Doug Wilson, not Jesus.
That is incorrect and false. All of Christ, for All of Life, for All of Moscow is the truthful point.
This is a great slogan. But it’s the extent to which it does or doesn’t, in practice, mean concerning political power and control that people have questions about.
Islam, wherever it goes, sees it as an important priority in its program to demonstrate outward dominance. Wilson’s version of Christian Reconstructionism and his brand of Postmillenialism appears to teach that Christ’s victory ultimately means outward dominance at the political level, and that this is something which his program in Moscow is intended to achieve in the present time.
And outsiders are likely to react to such a program in the same way that they do to Islam, seeing not a Christ who humbled himself to save them, but a political program that they don’t understand and thus instinctively fear. (And no, I don’t say this because I think that people becoming Christians in significant numbers won’t or shouldn’t inevitably have cultural or political consequences). Wilson seems to think that the offence people take at this is ultimately just “the offence of the cross”, and that it’s a consequence of faithfulness.
“Wilson’s version of Christian Reconstructionism and his brand of Postmillenialism appears to teach that Christ’s victory ultimately means outward dominance at the political level, and that this is something which his program in Moscow is intended to achieve in the present time.”
That is incorrect. Instead, worship is the central point of Christ Church. Living each day following scripture, confessing sins quickly so to keep short lists, praying all the time and reading through the Bible each year.
The complaints come from a small group of homosexuals, feminists and those who just hate God but take it out on Christ Church and Wilson. Then you have those who make up stories or only tell part of the truth such as Druzen.
The Latah County Human Rights Task Force is a private organization promoting homosexuality, transsexuality and other deviant behavior. The Task Force is one of the grops that Druzen wants to stay involved politically to punish Christ Church.
In the 2 1/2 decades I have lived in Moscow, the downtown area has been cleaned up, both Christian and secular businesses are flourishing and the Holy Spirit is at work. The changes aren’t because of Wilson or anyone else. It is God blessing the work here.
The city isn’t tired of “christianity”, it’s tired of Doug Wilson’s caracture of christianity. If Doug was feeding the poor and visiting the prisoner, loving his enemies and neighbors, you know- like Christ commanded, the city would be fine. But Doug is trying to seize power, take over the down, enact a theocracy. He is a slavery apologist, a strong patriarchalist, and has some wacky theology that the 300 word limit keeps me from going into- but it’s all googleable and available if you’re interested.
Jen Manlief, while I have my own reservations about Doug Wilson and don’t regularly follow him, and am neither trying to accuse OR defend him, your characterization of the situation is patently false, quite simply because there is, and was, and will be no one more loving than Jesus, and He was killed for it. So true followers of Christ should expect nothing less. So to say that if he was more like Jesus the city would then have no problem with him is a straw man argument not founded in the truth of God’s word, and is therefore foolish. In fact, you sound as if you are an enemy of Christ and the faith once delivered to the saints.
And you are an abortion apologist. Your sin is as great as his, so exactly how do you rationalize that?
Eddie, pal, you’ve GOT to have better things to do on Christmas Eve than come after me about an unrelated issue. But to be clear, I’m NOT an abortion apologist. I’ve challenged anyone to show me biblically why abortion is prohibited, understand that abortion as a political issue only started mattering to evangelicals when the moral majority wanted to trap conservative votes to maintain segregation once that fell out of favor, and know that abortion bans don’t actually change abortion rates, they just increase mother and infant mortality, and make childbirth more dangerous for everyone.
That said, I likely do more to reduce the rate of abortion than most christians, because I am actively at work on poverty issues, help provide free contraception a one of the places I volunteer, and work within social services for unhoused folk. So, call me an “abortion apologist” if you want, but I’m doing more to reduce and prevent abortions than most other evangelicals.
Not an unrelated issue at all. You go around these threads actively purveying liberal and social dogma. You have no credibility when speaking on any Christian matter because your own doctrine and theology is biased to the side of secular humanism, not Christianity. You cannot dismiss morally bankrupt issues such as abortion and actually serve God at the same time. That is not possible. Abortion is the willful murder of an innocent human being and yes, whether you choose to accept that or not, abortion is forbiden by the 6th Commandment. Just from what we know of the nature of God you should know abortion is a sin, but you keep pretending it isn’t. When you get your belief system in order, you can try and bust my chops, but until then, not so much.
Doug Wilson is patently wrong on many issues, especially creating a Theocracy here on Earth and I am an opponent of Doug Wilson. But you are certainly not the person to call him out until you’ve cleaned up your own house. As an aside, I am definitely not your “pal.”
God considers the life of the unborn as valuable as a grown person and prescribes punishment for those who harm the unborn.
Exodus 21:22-23:
22 “Now if people struggle with each other and strike a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, but there is no injury, the guilty person shall certainly be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide. 23 But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
God knows us before we are born and has a purpose for us.
Jeremiah 1:4-5:
4 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born, I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
God is personally involved in our formation before birth.
Psalm 139:
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
God has a plan for our days before we are born:
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
Life and death are to be left in God’s hands:
Job 12:10
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
Yes, it’s the type/style of Christianity that worries people including many followers of Jesus. I wish the article had put some adjectives/qualifiers in front of “Christianity” whenever it referred to the DW type… (This is an ancient problem, btw… the early church struggled with different varieties of ‘believers’ and some were more problematic than others. In the NT we see the Judaizers, whom Paul condemns. There were numerous varieties of Gnostics… ranging from ultra-ascetic to kooky prophesy nuts reminiscent of todays extreme charismatics…
True Christianity just looks, sounds like and acts like Jesus. They don’t try to take over, buy up, sneak in, rule over, etc etc. So true followers of Jesus and non-believers alike will reject DW’s way and other Christian Nationalist movements.
As one example of what you are saying, as a pastor, if I lived in or near Moscow ID, I would be among those in attendance at this meeting. Wilson is part of the growing movement towards white Christian nationalism, and it needs to be exposed and defeated.
Pastor Getchell-Lacy, where has anyone at Christ Church or Pastor Wilson advocated white Christian Nationalism? That is false. The term Christian Nationalism was applied to Christians by those who hate God. Is it an undefined handle? Yes.
Wiki has a bad definition that is used by those who don’t read the Bible and it is frequently used to insert race. Christian Nationalism isn’t a race issue but one of spreading the gospel and living by scripture daily in every aspect of our lives. If you are a businessman, don’t cheat your customers. If you are in government, make scriptural decisions instead of those based on whatever the current fad is. If you are a mom or dad, spend time every day teaching your children about Jesus. Educate them where they learn that every school subject is for God’s glory.
The Bible doesn’t distinguish by skin color, but by the individual’s heart. Are you daily applying the Great Commission in your town? Are you calling for homosexuals to repent and leave that destructive lifestyle? Are you asking your church members to read through the Bible every year?
“But Doug is trying to seize power, take over the down, enact a theocracy.”
That is incorrect. There is no push for a theocracy outside of praying for godly officials in Moscow.
-What does the Bible say about slavery?
-What does the Bible say about patriarchy?
-Does the Great Commission apply in Moscow or in your home town?
Look at the hosts and supporters of this event and let me know if you think they are following scripture properly.
Eugene, are previously unconverted people in Moscow coming to Christ in significant numbers, or are some Christians in other parts of the USA leaving their churches in order to move to Moscow? Are you posting what you have posted because you know? Genuine question.
Somewhat confused. Are Christians now called to blame “the world” or are they still called to primarily live out core spiritual values such as faith, grace, love, forgiveness, contentment, patience & self control, regardless of what “the world” may or may not do?
And looking at society and human behaviour from another perspective. Perhaps some aspects of “the world” have difficulty not so much with Jesus, but rather with forms of Christianity that assumes God given autonomy for itself, while wishing to deny it of others?
And also, perhaps aspects of “the world” are more positively influenced by mutual respect and selfless service with no strings attached, rather than hubristic certainty about all matter of things and religious rhetoric?
Thank you for this report. Keep digging on this one as this deserves a much deeper dive, especially on Doug Wilson’s theology and his desire for a certain type of theocracy and what that would look like. The article doesn’t mention he is a reconstructionist in the likeness of Rushdoony. Specifically look into this and his views on women’s rights, slavery, minorities and how he interprets the old covenant law and his belief on how it should be applied in our nation. This is a fast growing movement that need much light on it.
The unfortunate portion of examining the Bible is that you find unsettling things such as slavery, how women are to be submissive to their husbands, how the husband is to be submissive to Christ, and how we are to live our lives for Christ in every aspect including our homes, our business work and in our government.
America was founded on spreading the gospel to the heathens here. Now, when America is in a world of hurts, Christians who don’t have a clue about our government and how it should work are afraid that the Great Commission might bear fruit right in our own home towns.
“America was founded on spreading the gospel to the heathens here”(?)
I’m not sure this even qualifies as half-true. But it should be obvious how coercive evangelizing had disastrous effects on the native population. My own ancestors fled Europe 300 years ago due to conditions arising out of the church being wedded to the state. Surely there is a lesson to be learned from Europe’s empty cathedrals. Christianity that seeks to lord over people inevitably becomes dysfunctional. We should be wary of that impulse and follow Christ’s example of pursing the position of servant rather than lord.
Yes, America was founded on spreading the gospel to the heathens living here.
“We greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their desires for the furtherance of so noble a work, which may, by the providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the glory of his divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian religion to such people, as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God, and may in time bring the infidels and savages, living in those parts, to human civility, and to a settled and quiet government; Do, by these our letters pattents, graciously accept of, and agree to, their humble and well intended desires;” Virginia Charter 1606, Section III
America’s Christians have lost their ability to think biblically and are unwilling to understand the desire our founders had to have a nation founded on the Bible. Many of today’s Christians are uneducated on our nation’s founding and on our Bible.
Now, Christians are willing to put the state above the God of the Bible and are willing to swallow just about anything. The pandemic showed every Christian just how truly far off the mark we are. There is a huge difference between having a national religion such as the Church of England and having Christians in government actually making decision in a biblical manner.
Are you actually serious?? If what Europeans did was “spreading the gospel” to a people who were routinely exploited and then shoved off to the most barren land in the country, then sheesh, who needs enemies when you have “gospel-spreaders”?
“Wilson runs the Community of Reformed Evangelical Churches…”
I do not believe that statement is accurate.
Uri Brito is current presiding minister for the CREC.
The author and the organizers state Doug Wilson and his “empire” are extremist.
Click on the links provided for United Church of Moscow, the Latah County Human Rights Task Force and the Community Congregational United Church of Christ of Pullman and peruse their beliefs and events.
To any Bible-believing evangelical Christian, these organizations are extremist as well.
They don’t believe faith in Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation. They don’t believe marriage is for one man and one woman for life. They don’t believe in protecting unborn life. They embrace and promote LGBTQ+ ideology. They call people that disagree with their views hateful, bigoted, and prejudiced.
They are leading people from the narrow gate to the wide path that leads to destruction.
Thank you. My thoughts, exactly.
There is no mention of what this pastor is teaching that has so many of the citizens in the town of Moscow concerned with. Does the pastor follow sound doctrine? Does he preach the word according to Scripture? What exactly is his “extreme” message. How can I personally examine the Scriptures to see what is being taught if nothing in this article mentions that his teaching is unscriptural? Extreme! Extreme what? The word “extreme” can cover a lot of motivational presented topics. Show me the pastor’s false teaching if that is what he is being accused. Otherwise, I find this article “extremely” vague. Best regards, Ed
If Doug’s church is growing, it’s concerning but so be it. I have concerns with his theology, but recognize his church has a right to exist; and I have a right not to attend or be forced to agree with or uphold any of its beliefs.
Now if his church is trying to legislate their beliefs and turn Moscow into a theocracy of sorts, that’s against both the Constitution and scripture. We are to come to Christ on our own, not via government-mandated laws or religion.
You have been fed lies. There is nothing going on here against the Constitution except that actions taken by the City of Moscow. The emphasis is on proper worship and living a Christian life every day.
“Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”” Matthew 28:18-20
Does the Holy Spirit change lives? The problem is that God is blessing the work here in Moscow and changing hearts. That is what is bothering those who hate God.
Sometimes a small town can be run behind the scenes by members of a church. I’m aware of places where the LDS was prominent, and their businessmen ran the town. When I was growing up, Catholics ran a lot of things including the public schools, to some extent. Fridays at the school cafeteria were meatless. It was cheese pizza or fish sticks.
Ed Smith (and others who are interested in doing their own reading): His blog, here: https://dougwils.com is an excellent jumping off point so that you may be introduced to his teaching, theology and wit. Enter at your own peril or beatification!
Ed Smith has it right. An article like this is pure innuendo– quite dishonest, in fact, and Mrs. Roys should be ashamed of it. If you have something against Pastor Wilson, say what it is. This article just says he has a big church that publishes books and has a college and owns buildings downtown. That someone got 200 people together in the most leftwing town in Idaho (the college town) to attack a church leader who says sodomy is sinful is not surprising. Does Wilson do anything that a Christian should mind? Please quote, too– there is a lot of lying that goes on by supposed Christians.
I say this, by the way, as someone who is critical of Wilson’s theology, but I don’t think this article is attacking him for paedocommunion or for the Federal Theology.
From what I understand and have read, Doug Wilson and people like him (especially in the Reformed camp) use the law to try to “make” good Christians. Except “the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17 ESV) I don’t think they really know Jesus at all.
“Doug Wilson and people like him (especially in the Reformed camp) use the law to try to “make” good Christians. Except “the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”
Just like the Communists of the past century:
“Communism failed ONLY because The WRONG People were in charge of it!
This time We WILL Achieve True Communism because this time the RIGHT People (guess who?) WILL be in charge!”
For those wanting to know more about what Doug is up to, the “Extremely American” podcast season about Doug Wilson and Christian Nationalism is a good start.
However, the currently ongoing “Sons of Patriarchy” podcast goes much deeper. It’s also from a Christian prospective so the specifics and extent of Doug’s harmful theology and the movement he is a pretty of are much clearer.
The background episodes are extremely informative. Be aware though that many of episodes focused on the testimonies of victims of this movement may be disturbing.
For a short summary (as an alternative to multiple episodes of a podcast series), read this 2021 article:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/inside-the-church-that-preaches-wives-need-to-be-led-with-a-firm-hand/
The Sons of Patriarchy podcasts are only telling half the story. They are feeding you choice morsels that go to the innermost parts of your body. Half a story is also called a lie. Be aware that only one side of the supposedly disturbing stories is broadcast. The other half is completely different and destroys the Son’s podcasts. Are the stories sinful? Yes. Is God able to heal the foulest sinner and wash him white as snow? Yes.
Druzen, who does not claim Christ as his Savior, is trying to make a name for himself and in his Extremely American podcast refused to use the portions of one husband’s interview to slant the story entirely away from the truth. He would not read from police reports which refuted the stories told by his victims.
If you can’t see the bias presented in either of these two podcasts and if you actually think about what is said the lies and bias are most obvious to the casual observer.
The recent podcast series “Sons of Patriarchy” is very revealing.
Holy mackerel – look at the size and height of that elevated pulpit! Speaks volumes about what Wilson really thinks of his importance. That costume says even more.
Phil 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
Trading the pulpit for a large round table would be more fitting in following Jesus and building up his body, but Wilson’s kingdom/domain/income would most likely shrink.
Get real. The pulpit is elevated about 20 inches to allow the preacher to be seen by those sitting in the back. That photo was taken during worship held on a gym’s basketball court. Facts only count to those who want to speak the truth.
Saw this excellent op ed by David French, a well respected conservative voice (well, until he stood up against Trump). Worth a read, and I think it speaks to Doug Wilsons attempts in Moscow. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/opinion/christmas-jesus-power-humility.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jU4.Xdre.gcLfu9QerPl2&smid=url-share&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2ek9CRr9yBPQnosgsnQVawrv6ne8LnRSWMeK8szMW4-8GKfyDpzcbx3Bg_aem_4dqdzgIgEisMb1CPD7p0KA
“It’s remarkable how often ambition becomes cruelty. In our self-delusion, we persuade ourselves that we’re not just right but that we’re so clearly right that opposition has to be rooted in arrogance and evil. We lash out. We seek to silence and destroy our enemies.
But it is all for the public good. So we sleep well at night. We become one of the most dangerous kinds of people — a cruel person with a clean conscience.”
jen manlief:
Thanks for the David French link. Unfortunately, French’s theology does not comport completely with the truth. One of his statements, “But Christ’s life began in a manger, and it ended on a cross” is only partly true. Christ’s life did NOT end on a cross, and He is one day coming in power to bring His children home.
Indeed, He will come in GREAT power to defeat Satan once and for all. What French often forgets is that Jesus was God in the flesh, all-powerful and all-knowing. Stated differently, He holds this world in the hollow of his hand. We are grasshoppers in comparison.
Perhaps one day French will realize this. In the meantime, his inability (unwillingness?) to acknowledge the incredible might of Jesus is sad and sometimes leads others to view Jesus as less than He is.
“Wonderful Counselor; Almighty God; Everlasting Father; Prince of Peace.”
Definitely not a weakling, definitely not the effeminate individual described by French.
Cynthia, surely you know that David French speaking of the earthly ministry of Jesus. I have listened and read David French for a very long time and highly regard him as a faithful Christian, who follows a living Savior not a crucified man.
What you refer to as “a weakling, an effeminate individual” is according to French, “the upside-down kingdom of God”:
“Christ’s words were clear, and they cut against every human instinct of ambition and pride:
“The last will be first.”
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
“If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”
“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
I urge you to read the article. While it may be true that the focus right now is on the Evangelical Church, The point that he is making applies to anyone who holds their beliefs dogmatically.
Tricia Russell:
Thanks for your comments. I apologize for not making clear that I DID read the article. My conclusions remain the same.
What David French seems to do (quite often, in fact) is to call for a kind of “Christianity” that discounts the wrath of God, the power of God, the strength of God, and the masculinity of Jesus.
Jesus was a MAN, not a woman, not a child, not a weakling. A MAN. I have yet to understand why David French often seems to minimize this fact in favor of “winsomeness.”
Christians have access to the God of the Universe. They have HIS power through Christ. And minimizing that power discredits God Himself.
Let’s not get bogged down in discussions of David French, the stated slant of Sons of Patriarchy (an unabashedly victim centered podcast) or the reality that many folks have likely been saved and blessed via some of Doug’s teachings or in one of his related churches.
Instead, wise Christians should at least be aware that Mr Wilson is:
-A Slavery Apologist
-Strong supporter of physical discipling of children.
-Full bore supporter of Patriarchy and submission of wives to husbands well beyond the more common evangelical Complementarianism.
-A Purveyor of the “obligation sex” message for married women .
-On the record teaching that pastors are the authority on when and how to involve the civil authorities in matters of sexual abuse.
-Desirous of a country where individuals of non-Christian religions can’t hold high office.
All of this and much more is easy to find online. People will do what they want, but the facts are out there, most of them in Doug’s own words.
Surely taken together the stances above should be disqualifying enough for most folks to steer well clear of Doug and the CREC. However, if nothing else, the current scrutiny at least makes it allot harder for folks to claim they didn’t/don’t know what he’s all about.