James B. Nance moved to Moscow, Idaho, in 1989. In 1990 Logos School hired him to teach. He was made elder at Christ Church (then called Community Evangelical Fellowship) around 1993–1995. All total, Jim Nance taught at Logos School for 25 years and he was a Kirk elder for 20 years — plus or minus. Few if any Kirk officers enjoy this many years under their belts. His seniority alone made him a member of the inner circle.

Jim Nance has a page on Amazon dedicated to his textbooks on logic. The Amazon page has multiple links to Nance’s website, which is called Logic: The Fundamentals of Thinking Well (the live site is currently down). This is from the About page:

ABOUT
Jim Nance received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University in 1984, and after working for Boeing for 5 years, moved to Moscow, Idaho where he taught Logic, Rhetoric, Calculus, Physics, and Doctrine at Logos School for 25 years. During that time he developed several curricula, including the award-winning Introductory and Intermediate Logic. He enjoys teaching, reading, acting, and playing games with his friends and family. He and his wife Giselle have four children: Jamie, Josiah, Jacqueline, and Jonathan.

We don’t know when his sexual abuse of a Logos School student was discovered (yet), but according to his LinkedIn profile, Logos School let him go in December 2014:

Teacher
Logos School
Aug 1990 – Dec 2014 · 24 years 5 months
Moscow, ID
I taught Logic, Rhetoric, Calculus, Physics, and Doctrine. I also coached the Mock Trial B team, and the Math team.

Three years later, fellow Kirk officer Andrew Crapuchettes gave Nance a parachute at Emsi:

Data Engineer
Emsi
Dec 2017 – Present · 2 years 5 months
Moscow, ID

MoscowID.net heard noise about Nance in 2015 — but we only heard the Kirk spin. Specifically, that he sent “inappropriate” texts to a student, which could mean anything (half my kingdom to see those texts!). That they admitted this much is significant because it meant that much more happened.

James Nance is a veteran of all the Christ Church sexual-abuse scandals, including Steven Sitler and Jamin Wight. This could explain his fearlessness to touch the forbidden — he knew that Doug Wilson protects sex abusers at the expense of their victims. Sometime in in the summer of 2016 the Kirk scrubbed James Nance from their website, which gives a point of reference.

Back Row: Csaba Leidenfrost, Gordon Wilson, Matt Gray, John Carnahan, Jeremy Bunch
Middle Row: Bill Church, Ed Iverson, John Grauke, Wes Struble, John Sawyer, Dale Courtney
Front Row: Ben Merkle, Douglas Wilson, Mike Lawyer, Jim Nance
Not Pictured: Francis Foucachon, Jonathan McIntosh, Matt Meyer, Dan Vis

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