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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>K-</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Yes. Please share more of your passionate
prose. You have a unique perspective and a real ability to inspire
understanding through your writing.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I just hope you also share your writing with V2020 as
well as your new blog</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>BL</FONT> </DIV>
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<A title=kjajmix1@msn.com href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 26, 2008 11:42
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] in a better world
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<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>Visionaires,<BR><BR>Never would I have thought that I would
live in a community whose most well-known and powerful pastor, one who claims
to be a Trinitarian Christian and a Bible teacher, would behave in the
hostile, hateful, and horrendous manner that Douglas Wilson of Christ Church
has. During my six and a half years of living in Moscow and loving it, I
have been beyond dismayed at his theology, teaching, and engagement with the
community, and I've learned not to be surprised at what comes from his pen or
out of his mouth. But I find that he yet has the ability to shock me,
owing more to his crass conduct than to my naivete, and this morning offers
another example.<BR><BR>In a column bashing Pastor Greg Boyd's new book on the
idolatry of Christians in claiming the United States as a "Christian nation,"
and throwing themselves into politics in an attempt to make the kingdom of God
right here, right now, Wilson complains that Boyd has no basis, then, for
judging anything to be wrong. His serrated edge flashing, he says that,
for example, if he told Boyd his church spent last night "lynching homos --
you shoulda been there!", Boyd couldn't reasonably object.<BR><BR>Boyd won't,
because Wilson's pontificating has, thankfully, a limited audience. But
I can, and I do. In fact, my 15-year-old son Jonah and I both responded
to Wilson on his Blog and Mablog, and while my son responded to the
church/state issue, I'm as proud of him as I am embarrassed, once again, by
the man who would like to be thought of as the Bishop of the Palouse. I
invite you to read my comments there. If not, let me state in the most
concrete way that I can:<BR><BR>For a pastor to make a point, any point, by
using "lynching homos" as an example, one of hyperbole and excess, is
despicable, particularly given the virulent homophobia Wilson has
espoused. And for none of his readers to complain is, while predictable,
most disappointing. In a perfect world, or even a mildly better one,
other Christians would howl in protest, rebuking Wilson immediately and
publicly. It ain't that kind of world, though. And, hesitant
church leadership notwithstanding, it's frankly just as sad to me that many of
you don't want to comment, object, or even know -- and wish I would just shut
up about the whole thing.<BR><BR>Sorry, but I can't do it. What I can
and will do, however, is begin my own very publicized, very pointed blog
devoted to defending the Gospel by correcting bad theology both within the
Kirk and from other sources. I don't know what to call it yet, and I
don't know how to design it, but I intend to never let up 'til the day I die .
. . <BR><BR>The stakes for our community are high, higher than most Moscow
residents realize. But the stakes are even higher for the message of
peace and reconciliation, justice and love, spoken and lived by the Lord Jesus
Christ and sullied by Wilson, et al. If Christ means anything to
me, I can certainly endure the scorn of my neighbors and the mocking of
the boys at the Kirk by writing against them. I'll still write on
Vision, and still write about Christ Church as relevant to the discussion, but
the content of my blog will be theology, gender and peace-and-justice issues,
and scathing critique of those who spew bigotry in the name of
Christ.<BR><BR>As a stay-at-home mom with a fairly useless BA from a
quarter-century ago, I may be "just a housewife" to some at the Kirk -- but if
I am a housewife, I am a thundering one, and I can't be
silent.<BR><BR>Keely<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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