MOSCOW, Idaho (FāVS News) — On 30 acres at the edge of Moscow, Idaho, construction crews are erecting a Jeffersonian set of classical buildings arranged around a central quad, resembling a miniature University of Virginia. But this isn’t a public university. It’s the new campus for Logos School, part of the influential pastor Doug Wilson’s decadeslong effort to transform this college town into a conservative Christian redoubt.
The expansion reflects the rapid growth of Wilson’s Christ Church, which he has led for nearly 50 years. Driven by families with four to six children on average and emigration (“people were chased here by blue state governors,” Wilson said), the church has doubled in size since 2019 to about 3,000 people — roughly 10% of the population of this university town in Idaho’s northern panhandle.
The pace has even caught Wilson off guard. The church recently completed a new church hall — next to the burgeoning Logos Quad — that seats 1,200 people. Wilson says they’ve already outgrown it.
“We didn’t anticipate it being this rapid,” he said during a recent interview at Kirker Commons, where his office is located alongside other church pastors. “We don’t know what to do with all the people. We’re scrambling.”
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