James Dobson, Founder of Focus on the Family, Has Died

Advocate of traditional Christian morality leaves complicated legacy

Some people, when they die, leave complicated legacies. James Dobson, who died at age 89 on Aug. 21, was one of those people. Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, […]

Sons and Fathers – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Many years ago, I had the good fortune to hear the genius-divinity, Dr. James Dobson, speak on the radio about rebellious, surly teenage sons. Dr. Dobson made a simply overwhelming point about such kids, one of whom was a certain Tommy Stein: Your sons have an immense reservoir of love for their fathers. No matter how much the boys try to hide it, they love their dads as deep as an ocean. Love was always the answer for Tommy. Do not be put off o…

Remembering Dr. James Dobson: ‘We May Never See Another Like Him’

For political reporters and politicians, the news that Dr. James Dobson died on Aug. 21 dealt a jolt. Dobson, founder of pro-family organization Focus on the Family, had played a starring role in the molding of evangelical conservatism into a potent political force. But Dobson, who was 89 at the time of his death, had been relatively quiet and removed from politics for nearly two decades. He did weigh in strongly for Donald Trump in 2016 — maint…

James Dobson: The OG culture warrior

It wasn’t long ago that the death of an important figure among the Christian right would have been big national news. These were people held in high esteem by the political establishment, credited with electing Republican politicians to high office and protecting the nation’s moral character. But when the Family Research Council’s Dr. James C. Dobson — one of religious right’s most influential figures — died last week, it wasn’t much of a story,…

Evangelical leader's legacy destroyed with exposure of church's destructive practice

On Thursday, August 21, James Dobson — founder of Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council — passed away at 89. Dobson was one of the most influential far-right evangelical Christian fundamentalists in the United States; along with the Moral Majority's Rev. Jerry Fawell Sr. and the Christian Broadcasting Network's (CBN) Pat Roberson, Dobson played a key role in the Religious Right's takeover of the Republican Party during the 1980s.Do…

James Dobson, 89, influential leader of the religious right

James Dobson, the evangelical Christian broadcaster who waged war on homosexuality and championed "family values" in a long crusade that made him one of the nation's most influential leaders of the religious right, died Thursday at his home in Colorado…