Doug Wilson

I believe that it is accelerating.

I believe that we're making significant gains.

I see us assembling resources, and I'm encouraged in that labor.

But I don't expect to see what we're praying for in my lifetime.

This is Today Explained.

My name is Douglas James Wilson.

I'm the senior pastor at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho.

So I'm a pastor and I'm a writer.

Yes.

Right.

I'm okay with it.

It's not a term that I would have picked off the menu myself, but when it was assigned to us, I thought, I can work with that, because I prefer it to the names I usually get called.

There's a character in one of Hemingway's stories I've heard who was asked how he went bankrupt.

And he said, well, at first gradually and then suddenly.

So what happened is when COVID hit,

was sort of the pressure test or the stress test for us.

All the wheels came off and for a lot of, I call them normies and grillers, a lot of normal Americans were looking around and say, what just happened?

This is crazy.

What do you mean drag queen story hour?

What do you mean?