Editorial from the Denver Post

What does the future hold for the conservative Christian leader and the ministry he founded when he steps down next year?

Love him or hate him, Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson has for more than a generation been a powerful force in our nation’s culture and politics. It’s hard to imagine him not being the face and voice of the conservative Christian ministry come the end of February.

As he steps down from Focus on the Family, we wonder whether the ministry can keep its own focus. No doubt, for many of the baby boomers who turned to Dobson and his many best-selling books for guidance in raising their children, Dobson was Focus on the Family.

Now that their children are grown and Dobson’s larger-than-life personality fades from the scene, the ministry could face big challenges in keeping up its already waning financial support.

For 32 years Dobson has led the Colorado Springs-based nonprofit and helped it grow into an international powerhouse. Every day, the ministry says, some 220 million people across the world hear Dobson’s radio commentaries, which air on thousands of U.S. stations and 160 other countries, including China.

The 73-year-old licensed child, marriage and family psychiatrist is a prolific writer who came to fame in 1970 with his book “Dare to Discipline,” which advocates corporal punishment for young children. Dobson has since written 35 more books on Christian development and family.

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