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36 分钟In the season 2 premiere of Extremely American, we meet Pastor Doug Wilson who leads Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. His vision for the small college town? He wants to claim it for Jesus. And that's just the start. He and his allies want to make the whole country an explicitly Christian nation. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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So this is the.
This is the fellowship hall.
The kitchen will be there, the meeting area will be here, the pulpit will be here.
We're touring a construction site with Doug Wilson.
He's the pastor of a growing church in Idaho.
It's currently slated to seat 1200 people, but we wouldn't fit if we built it.
If it appeared tomorrow, we would have to be in two services there.
The construction is a major expansion of Doug's church community.
They're also building a separate fellowship hall, a new school building a gym, and a football field.
We're standing on the south end of a 30 acre parcel, and the northeast end of it is Moscow Mountain.
A view of Moscow Mountain.
The buildings are going in at the edge of Moscow, Idaho.
On the surface, this construction site is pretty unremarkable.
Here in Moscow, though, it represents an intense battle, a disagreement over the role of religion in public life and this church community and the guy giving us the tour have people in the town on edge.
I'm the senior minister at Christchurch in Moscow, Idaho.
I've been serving in that function since 1977.
And you all have my permission to use whatever is recorded here.
Doug's church and its members have been increasing their influence in town.