Dobson giving up helm of Focus on the Family

By Electa Draper
The Denver Post
02/28/2009

Evangelical Christian icon James Dobson has resigned as chairman of the international media ministry Focus on the Family, yet the voice of this key architect of the religious right will still be heard in American homes and political theater, he told followers Friday.

Dobson told the 950 Focus on the Family employees at their monthly chapel services this week that he wasn't "limping away" but stepping aside for a new generation of leaders whom he had handpicked.

Tens of millions of Christian baby boomers grew up listening to the radio broadcasts of this avuncular family therapist with a doctorate in early-childhood development. the rest