[Vision2020] RE: Welcome Elder Alan Stout

[Alan Stout]

Hey thanks.

Ummm, I actually found your website by accident though I did know about
your little squabble (I cannot remember exactly how I hit the button
that brought me there though).    The plagiarism charge seems valid (and
he seems to have addressed it), the R E Lee thing seems petulant,
concerning the slavery issue I am ignorant having not read pastor
Wilson's book (though at the suggestion of one I will read it), what
else. Oh, the church picture. no that is not the inside of my church.
We are in the process of changing that welcome shot since most people
are a bit disappointed when they get to our little speck of worldly
insignificance.  Small budget and overzealous web designers do not mix.


  

I should apologize to Miss Opry and I do so now. I should not have
lifter her statement from her letter and posted it without attribution.
It was also a mistake for me to insert myself into your local politics.
(the things I get myself into as the hour gets late).   My apologies for
that and I shall not return.  

 

May God pour out his grace upon You.

 

Al sends.

 

PS,  I do not own a confederate flag but I will watch my luggage.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: DonaldH675 at aol.com [mailto:DonaldH675 at aol.com] 
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 1:15 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com; providence at mchsi.com
Subject: Welcome Elder Alan Stout

 

Visionaries:

 

I join with Melynda and Joan in welcoming Elder Alan Stout to Vision
2020.  Always nice to have a new voice join the conversations.  Tell us,
Elder Stout, did Hurricane Charlie hit your part of Florida? Or are you
a different Alan Stout than the co-pastor of Providence Community Church
in Pensacola, Florida? 

http://www.providencepensacola.org/index.cfm?webid=7   

>From the picture on your web page of what I supposed to be the interior
of your church, you are fortunate to serve in such a, well, grand
structure.

 

I note that the church website has a link to *Credenda Agenda*. . .so
Doug Wilson's work is not exactly foreign to you, is it?  I also note
that your church website is linked to Trinitas Christian School.
http://www.trinitaschristian.org/abouttrinitas.htm

 

"Trinitas Christian School is also a member of the Association of
Classical and Christian Schools (ACCS) and, Lord willing, will seek
accreditation through them in the years to come."  

 

Probably you didn't realize that Doug Wilson and a few friends started
ACCS several years ago, or that its headquarters are here in Moscow.

 

Isn't it curious how your lives seem magically to intersect?  Could this
be providential?

 

If you are retiring from the Navy next year, as your biography suggests,
you might be considering a move to Moscow.  You'll find a school that is
not dissimilar to Trinitas.  Oh, except at Logos School, Robert E. Lee's
birthday is celebrated - and it didn't seem to be on the list of
holidays at Trinitas.  Isn't that ironic?  In Florida, where one might
expect to find some nostalgia for that *noble* fellow, you folks
overlook the opportunity to celebrate his birth--while here in northern
Idaho (at least among some groups), there is a rather particular
affection for neo-Confederate celebrations.  Just a hint.  You might
want to bone up on Lee if want to impress Doug.  Steve Wilkins, a close
friend of Doug's--would you believe it?!-- preaches practically next
door to you in Monroe, LA.  He's written what I'm sure is a splendid
little pamphlet called "The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1581823347/qid=1093153355/
sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-1799745-5562442?v=glance
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1581823347/qid=1093153355
/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-1799745-5562442?v=glance&s=books> &s=books

(The used copies start at $6.50--I'd go that route if I were you.)


Once again, Mr. Alan Stout, welcome to our little chat group. Vision
2020 is an excellent source of information on Moscow.  This is a
wonderful town, with committed, concerned citizens and a vibrant and
diverse population.  And, while I'm sure you don't own one, just in case
some well-meaning parishioner tucks a Confederate flag into your
luggage, you might want to lose it before you get to Moscow.  We're
funny about that sort of thing--it doesn't resonate with the more
thoughtful members of the community.  

 

Rose Huskey

(proud mother of Melynda Huskey, and mother-in-law of the world's
funniest writer, Joan Opyr)

 

"One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There
are just too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference
between doing something and doing nothing is everything." Daniel
Berrigan



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