[Vision2020] Daily News June 10, 2005: INK: Christ Church documentary film premieres Thursday

[Saundra Lund]

The following appeared in Vera White's INK column in today's Daily News.  I
know where I'll be Thursday evening  :-)

Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
Edmund Burke
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INK: Christ Church documentary film premieres Thursday
By Vera White, Daily News staff writer

Theater-goers will be treated to a star-studded cast Thursday when Michael
Hayes' documentary, "My Town," premieres at the Kenworthy Performing Arts
Centre. 

In the 70-minute film, the associate professor at Washington State
University's Department of Teaching and Learning, explores the controversy
that erupted in late 2003 over Christ Church Pastor Doug Wilson's pamphlet
"Southern Slavery As It Was," and the history conference Wilson's Credenda
Agenda magazine staged the following February on the University of Idaho
campus. 

"My Town" features interviews with Wilson, brother Evan Wilson, Roy Atwood
and other kirkers, as well as community activists such as JoAnn Muneta, Bill
London and Rosemary Huskey. 

The showing is sponsored by the Auntie Establishment (Joan Opyr) and Brother
Carl (Carl Westberg Jr.) Show, which is broadcast every Sunday from 5 to 7
p.m. on KRFP Moscow, 92.5 FM. 

"Explosive" is the term Opyr used to describe the film to the INKster
Wednesday. "A revealing documentary about small-town politics and wide
cultural differences." 

Hayes told the INKster his goal shifted after he started the project in
October. 

"I started out to make an exposé of the pamphlet after a colleague gave me a
copy," Hayes said. "But then I shifted for a look at the cultural wars'
controversy in Moscow." 

Huskey, who saw the film this week, found the interview with Evan Wilson,
pastor of All Souls Christian Church in Moscow, interesting. 

"Generally, Evan addressed Doug's notion of redesigning Moscow along the
lines of Oxford, or other major British universities, with New St. Andrews
College as the anchor piece, perhaps with a downtown cathedral and related
businesses," Huskey noted in an e-mail. 

The Thursday showing of "My Town" begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 general
admission; and $3 for students, senior citizens, children under 12, and
those on fixed incomes. Anyone wishing to make an additional donation to
help defray the cost of screening may make a deposit to the Auntie
Establishment account at American West Bank. Proceeds will be donated to
support low-wattage broadcasting in Moscow.

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