November 22, 2009
The Source of Worry, Fear, and Anxiety
Brian Borgman writes:
The Bible leaves us no room for debate. The source of fear, worry, and anxiety is unbelief. The unbelief is specific, laid out for us by Isaiah and Jesus. When we fail to believe that God is for us, will take care of us, has our future in his hands, and is with us right now, we cave in to fear, worry, or anxiety.....When we are gripped with anxiety and fear, we are making an evaluation. Our souls are speaking, and our innermost being is expressing what we believe and whom we do not believe. How do we handle these emotions that can overwhelm us? We put a stranglehold on them with the vise grips of truth.Browse the book online, and/or order a copy. Also, here's my interview with Brian Borgman about his important book.--From Chapter 11, page 128.
The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition and Interpretation
This sounds like a fantastic book, from a wonderful Hebrew professor. While reading this book John Piper tweeted "I feel like a greedy miser over a chest of gold." He went on to say:
To all pastors and serious readers of the Old Testament—geek, uber geek, under geek, no geek—if you graduated from high school and know the word “m e a n i n g,” sell your latest Piper or Driscoll book and buy Sailhamer.That's enough reason to buy it. But here's another endorsement:There is nothing like it. It will rock your world. You will never read the “Pentateuch” the same again. It is totally readable. You can skip all the footnotes and not miss a beat.
"For years John Sailhamer has been pressing toward a comprehensive work on the Pentateuch, preparing the way with such works as his The Pentateuch as Narrative and a host of periodical publications on the subject. At last the magnum opus has appeared under the title The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition and Interpretation. In typical Sailhamer fashion, he has left no stones unturned in any language necessary to get to primary and secondary sources, while at the same time offering fresh insights into the biblical texts and compelling invitations to the reader to view them in more holistic and integrative ways. Careful reading of the book will inevitably call for a reexamination of the issue of the Pentateuch's antiquity and its deliberate compositional strategy, a reassessment that will help to rehabilitate Torah as not the end product of Judaism but as the foundation of Israelite faith and practice."
- Eugene H. Merrill, Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
The Pentateuch is the foundation for understanding the Old Testament and the Bible as a whole. Yet through the centuries it has been probed and dissected, weighed and examined, its text peeled back for its underlying history, its discourse analyzed and its words weighed. Could there be any stone in Sinai yet unturned?Surprisingly, there is. From a career of study, John Sailhamer sums up his perspective on the Pentateuch by first settling the hermeneutical question of where we should set our attention. Rather than focus on the history behind the text, Sailhamer is convinced that it is the text itself that should be our primary focus. Along the way he demonstrates that this was in fact the focus of many interpreters in the precritical era.
Persuaded of the singular vision of the Pentateuch, Sailhamer searches out clues left by the author and the later editor of the Pentateuch that will disclose the meaning of this great work. By paying particular attention to the poetic seams in the text, he rediscovers a message that surprisingly brings us to the threshold of the New Testament gospel.
November 19, 2009
CT Interview with Michael Horton
Mark Galli of Christianity Today interviews Michael Horton about his pair of books, Christless Christianity and The Gospel-Driven Life (both with Baker). Their first interaction:
What is at the core of the temptation to practice a Christless Christianity?
When the emphasis becomes human-centered rather than God-centered. In more conservative contexts, you hear it as exhortation: "These are God's commandments. The culture is slipping away from us. We have to recover it, and you play a role. Is your life matching up to what God calls us to?" Of course there is a place for that, but it seems to be the dominant emphasis.Read the whole thing.Then there is the therapeutic approach: "You can be happier if you follow God's principles." All of this is said with a smile, but it's still imperative. It's still about techniques and principles for you to follow in order to have your best life now.
In both cases, it's law rather than gospel. I don't even know when I walk into a church that says it's Bible-believing that I'm actually going to hear an exposition of Scripture with Christ at the center, or whether I'm going to hear about how I should "dare to be a Daniel." The question is not whether we have imperatives in Scripture. The question is whether the imperatives are all we are getting, because people assume we already know the gospel—and we don't.
November 18, 2009
Generational Investment in the SBC
Owen Strachan quotes Walter Price from a recent address given at the California Southern Baptist Convention:
I am not here today to claim the demise of the CSBC. It hasn’t happened…yet. What I am here to say is, ‘There’s an iceberg off the starboard bow and we better wake up.’Walter, senior pastor of Fellowship in the Pass Church in Beaumont, California, is a great guy that any young pastor would be privileged to get to know.What is the iceberg? You already know. You saw it yourselves when I asked you to stand by age groups. The time has come for someone to sound the alarm. I do not purport to speak for the younger generation. They are eloquent in speaking for themselves. But the signs that I see are not encouraging. For all intents and purposes, except for a very few exceptions, we have lost those in their 20’s and 30’s.
If that statement causes you to react against them from under your gray hair, you are way off the mark. These young Baptists are passionate for the Kingdom of God. They are passionate to see people from every tribe and tongue and nation gather round the throne and worship our Holy God. Theirs is not a youthful rebellion. For them it is a matter of (and this is my word not theirs) stewardship. Is this convention the way that God wants me to invest my life, my time, my energy, my resources? I’m afraid many of them are finding little reason to answer in the affirmative.
Definition of bureaucracy
Matt Perman tells us, in 22 words, how to know if we have a bureaucracy.
Does God Really Want All People To Be Saved?
R.C. Sproul responds to a question submitted by Mark Driscoll on behalf of a Facebook user (part 2 of an interview, see part 1). Sproul distinguishes between various aspects of the will of God:
"Even though God is committed to justice (and judgment), he doesn't get his jollies by subjecting people to punishment, like a sadistic tyrant would. The disposition of God is one of lovingkindness, but that lovingkindness doesn't annul his concern for righteousness."
November 17, 2009
David Axelrod Takes on Congressman Bart Stupak
Axelrod speaks obliquely about "discussions" to remove the Stupak-Pitts Amendment from health care legislation. (In other words: A trial balloon with plausible deniability....note how many "uhms" Axelrod utters.)
Obama Losing Independent Voters
Good WSJ article by Scott Rasmussen and Douglas Schoen on the trend of independent voters moving away from Obama, with some suggestions for what the President could do about it.
Sarah Palin and 2012 - I Was Wrong
I said she wasn't running for President, but clearly she is. The book tour is extremely well-timed, as her PAC needs to rake in $$ in 2010 and hit the ground running in 2011. Watch as she turns book interviews into observations on public policy and current events, replete with what sound like pre-tested sound bytes. Is it working? For now, maybe. Even negative op-eds sell books, and its amazing how strong some of the animosity is (Bob Scheiffer saying she "has no future in politics"; David Brooks saying "she is a joke"). Surely they go too far (folks like Scheiffer and Brooks spend their days surrounded by elites). That said, a title like "going rogue" is unlikely to help her gain serious consideration by a wide range of Americans.
Should she? Probably not. She has pockets of strong support, but also high negatives. She is simply not sufficiently knowledgeable on the issues in our day, and while her Reaganesque, common sense conservatism is winsome, she needs a greater depth of understanding and oratorical finesse to successfully extend her support base (the way Obama, for example, came from relative obscurity to electrify the Democratic party).
I see her as a force in the resurgent conservative movement, but not as the GOP nominee in 2012.
The New Shape of World Christianity
In a must-read for missiologists, church planters, and Christians seeking a deep understanding of how the church intersects with history, not to mention where we are going, Mark Noll sums up and analyzes the magnitude of recent changes in world Christianity in The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith
1. There might be more Christians in China than all of "Christian Europe" (which, I'd add, has been sliding toward secularism and Islam for years).
2. There are more Anglicans any one of several African states (Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda) than in Britain and Canada combined (even if you tack on all the Episcopalians in the U.S.).
3. There are more Presbyterians in the United Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa than in Presbyterian churches in the USA.
4. There are more members in Brazil's Pentecostal Assemblies of God denomination than the combined total of the two largest U.S. Pentecostal denominations (the Assemblies of God and the Church of God in Christ) in the United States.
But this book is far more than factoids about changing demographics. Noll explains:
"The main point of this book is that American Christianity is important for the world primarily because the world is coming more and more to look like America. Therefore, the way that Christianity developed in the American environment helps explain the way Christianity is developing in many parts of the world."
Noll is a graduate of Wheaton College (B.A., English), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A., Theology), and Vanderbilt University (Ph.D., History of Christianity). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
John Piper - Live Twitter Video Q&A
Approximately three hours of Q&A with John Piper, taking questions from Twitter. Here's the first hour:
For more video, go here.
November 14, 2009
Matt Chandler on Hebrews 11
A fantastic message given this week at the chapel of the Southern Baptist Seminary:
HT: Denny Burk
November 11, 2009
Obama Against The Stupak-Pitts Amendment
In an interview with ABC News, President Obama came out (obliquely) against the Stupak amendment (which passed 240-194, with significant bipartisan support), which others are reporting the President has already pledged to help undo. When asked if Stupak goes too far, Obama answered:
...I want to make sure that the provision that emerges meets that test—that we are not in some way sneaking in funding for abortions, but, on the other hand, that we're not restricting women’s insurance choices, because one of the pledges I made in that same speech was to say that if you're happy and satisfied with the insurance that you have, that it's not going to change.Ramesh Ponnuru calls this disingenuous:So, you know, this is going to be a complex set of negotiations. I'm confident that we can actually arrive at this place where neither side feels that it's being betrayed. But it's going to take some time. . . .
I think that there are strong feelings [about the amendment] on both sides. And what that tells me is that there needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we're not changing the status quo.
There were, after all, “strong feelings” about the unamended legislation, which pro-lifers criticized for funding abortion. Did Obama say then that the legislation needed to be changed to allay those concerns? No: He claimed that the critics were “bearing false witness.” In a televised address to a joint session of Congress, he said that the idea that the plan funded abortion was a “misunderstanding.” Only now, when the abortion lobby is unhappy with the legislation, does Obama think it needs to be changed. But he’s not willing to state his position honestly.Elsewhere, Ponnuru responds to conservatives who think that passing Stupak was bad strategy.
Though a bit dated now, here's a helpful explanation from Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) on the need for his amendment:
And here's a helpful explanation on what his amendment does and does not do:
November 10, 2009
John Bolton and Charles Krauthammer on Obama's Foreign Policy
In a speech delivered in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2009, Ambassador John Bolton (U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from August 2005 to December 2006) delivered a withering assessment of President Obama's foreign policy decisions. An excerpt:
The Obama administration believes that its predecessor didn't negotiate enough on issues like the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The president has said repeatedly--starting with his Inaugural Address--that the United States must hold out its hand to countries like North Korea and Iran in the hopes that they will unclench their fist and enter into negotiation. This reflects a curious view of history, since in fact the Bush administration negotiated directly or indirectly with Iran and North Korea for six-and-a-half years. But more importantly, it reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of negotiation. Negotiation is not a policy. It is a technique. It is a way of achieving our objectives. It doesn't tell us what the objectives are. The emphasis on negotiation as an end in itself reflects a shallowness in this administration's approach to international affairs, and gives us little confidence that our interests will be well served.Read the whole thing.
On a related note, Charles Krauthammer delivered an outstanding lecture last month at The Manhattan Institute entitled "Decline is a Choice". Krauthammer lecture was adapated into an article with the same title in The Weekly Standard (HT: Owen Strachan). An excerpt:
The corollary to unchosen European collapse was unchosen American ascendancy. We--whom Lincoln once called God's "almost chosen people"--did not save Europe twice in order to emerge from the ashes as the world's co-hegemon. We went in to defend ourselves and save civilization. Our dominance after World War II was not sought. Nor was the even more remarkable dominance after the Soviet collapse. We are the rarest of geopolitical phenomena: the accidental hegemon and, given our history of isolationism and lack of instinctive imperial ambition, the reluctant hegemon--and now, after a near-decade of strenuous post-9/11 exertion, more reluctant than ever.Which leads to my second proposition: Facing the choice of whether to maintain our dominance or to gradually, deliberately, willingly, and indeed relievedly give it up, we are currently on a course towards the latter. The current liberal ascendancy in the United States--controlling the executive and both houses of Congress, dominating the media and elite culture--has set us on a course for decline. And this is true for both foreign and domestic policies. Indeed, they work synergistically to ensure that outcome.
Has R.C. Sproul Ever Been on the Internet?
A humorous exchange (BTW - I'll soon be posting an interview with Dr. Sproul discussing his soon-to-be-released book Surprised By Suffering, the second edition of a previous work
November 09, 2009
Former Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson
HT: Justin Taylor
Doctrine of Vocation
Dorothy Sayers, a contemporary of C.S. Lewis, wrote a penetrating essay entitled Why Work? published as a chapter in the volume Creed or Chaos? Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster (Or, Why It Really Does Matter What You Believe)
What is the Christian understanding of work? I should like to put before you two or three propositions arising out of the doctrinal position which I stated at the beginning: namely, that work is the natural exercise and function of man -- the creature who is made in the image of his Creator.....The first, stated quite briefly, is that work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.Sayers goes on to argue that remuneration should not be the driving force for our labor, but rather love of the work itself. Therefore, people should do what they are "fitted" to do. In addition, she argues:
We should no longer think of work as something that we hastened to get through in order to enjoy our leisure; we should look on our leisure as the period of changed rhythm that refreshed us for the delightful purpose of getting on with our work.Sayers adds that we should "clamor to be engaged in work that was worth doing, and in which we could take pride."
On a related theme, I've previously published an article on vocation and one on leisure.
November 07, 2009
The House of Representatives Health Care Debate
You can watch it now, live, as they debate the Stupak-Pitts amendment which would prevent federal funding of abortion under any Health Care Reform bill that gets passed and enacted into law. The Stupak-Pitts Amendment would prohibit coverage of elective abortion in two big new federal programs created by the bill -- the new federal health insurance plan ("public option") and the premium-subsidy program ("affordability credits").
Please call your representative now 202-224-3121 and ask them to support this important amendment, regardless of their perspective on the Affordable Health Care For America Act. Don't know who your representative is? You can find that information here.
Update: The Stupak-Pitts Amendment has passed by a 240-194 vote (with one "present" vote).
Update #2: Some argue that Stupak-Pitts was bad pro-life strategy, because the Democratic leadership could strip the language later. (HT: Michael Duenes)
HT: Justin Taylor
November 06, 2009
New Unemployment Rate: 10.2%
I posted this video back in July, but I think it warrants a re-post, given today's troubling economic news: the nation's unemployment rate rose to 10.2% in October, the first time in 26 years that it has been above 10%. Economists had forecast an unemployment rate of 9.9%, so the figure released today was worse than expected. Moreover:
Prior to this report, most economists had believed that the unemployment rate would keep rising and that job losses would continue into next year. But the jump in unemployment in October took it to levels worse than what many previously had expected to be the peak.
November 05, 2009
CA Borrowing Our Money Without Interest
The cash-strapped state of CA has decided to "borrow" a chunk of our money, without interest. Shouldn't this be illegal? Time value of money? The LA Times reports:
Starting Sunday (November 1), cash-strapped California will dig deeper into the pocketbooks of wage earners -- holding back 10% more than it already does in state income taxes just as the biggest shopping season of the year kicks into gear.But apparently there may be a work-around:Technically, it's not a tax increase, even though it may feel like one when your next paycheck arrives. As part of a bundle of budget patches adopted in the summer, the state is taking more money now in withholding, even though workers' annual tax bills won't change.
Think of it as a forced, interest-free loan: You'll be repaid any extra withholding in April. Those who would receive a refund anyway will receive a larger one, and those who owe taxes will owe less.
Savvy taxpayers can get around the state's maneuver by increasing the number of personal withholding allowances they claim on their employer tax forms, said Brenda Voet, a spokeswoman for the state's Franchise Tax Board.Check it out."People can get out of this," she said, noting that most people would have to change their allowances through their employers. California's budget leaders are banking on the hope that most won't.
The Marriage Index: Establishing and Tracking Leading Marriage Indicators
The Institute for American Values and the National Center on African American Marriages and Parenting have partnered to establish The Marriage Index, a metric designed to measure the health of American marriages (not unlike how the Leading Economic Index put out by The Conference Board watches economic trends. Dr. Albert Mohler explains:
The Marriage Index is based on solid data and includes five major components: the percentage of adults ages 20-54 who are married, the percentage of married persons who are "very happy" with their marriage, the percentage of first marriages that are intact, the percentage of births to married parents, and the percentage of children living with their own married parents.Some data Dr. Mohler sites from the 2008 Marriage Index report:
1. In 1970, 78.6 percent of adults age 20-54 were married. In 2008, it dropped to 57.2 percent. That's a huge decline (over 25%).Read the rest of Dr. Mohler's observations, or read the 36-page 2008 Marriage Index report.2. In 1970, 67% of married Americans reported that their union was "very happy." Today, the figure is 62%. A modest decline, but consider that many who are not happy more easily divorce today.
3. In 1970, 77.4 percent of first marriages were intact, but only 61.2 percent were intact in 2007. About a 20% decline.
4. Today, only 60.3 percent of all babies are born to married couples, compared to 89.3 percent in 1970. Wow. Breathtaking, when you think about the disadvantages children born out of wedlock inevitably experience.
5. In 1970, 68.7 percent of all children lived with their own mother and father. In 2007, that percentage had dropped to 61.0.
November 04, 2009
Interview - Tim Keller - The Reason For God
Michael Horton interviews pastor Tim Keller about his NY Times best selling book The Reason For God. It is a fascinating 35-minute conversation in which Keller talks about why the world is getting both more religious and less religious (depending on which group you are looking at). Keller helpfully balances the importance of doctrinal and theological seriousness and contextualization (engaging the culture, but not in a shallow, sentimental fashion).
Also addressed is the first chapter of The Reason For God, which shows how everyone has exclusive beliefs; embracing the exclusive truth claims of Christ do not make someone an intolerant, threatening neighbor. Hell, the wrath of God, and the unity of the Godhead in the vicarious atoning death of Christ are all discussed. Keller gives some great illustrations of how to explain why a God who is predisposed to forgive nevertheless requires a payment for that sin.
Amazingly, Keller's book is still in the top 1000 on Amazon
November 03, 2009
Planned Parenthood Director Resigns
Abby Johnson, 29, was a Planned Parenthood Director in Bryan, Texas. After witnessing an abortion while watching the baby die on an ultrasound screen, Johnson resigned her position and started volunteering for Coalition for Life, a pro-life group located just a block away from the Planned Parenthood clinic where she worked for eight years. Watch a two-minute local news report with Ms. Johnson.
HT: Jennifer Masko
Update: Mike Huckabee conducts an 8-minute interview with Abby Johnson.
LA Judge Who Refused Interracial Marriage Resigns
CNN:
A Louisiana justice of the peace who drew criticism for refusing to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple has resigned, the secretary of state's office said Tuesday.Read the whole thing.Keith Bardwell, a justice of the peace for Tangipahoa Parish's 8th Ward, was widely criticized after he refused to grant a marriage license to Beth McKay and Terence McKay, an interracial couple who ultimately got a marriage license from another justice of the peace in the same parish.
November 02, 2009
Nov/Dec Nine Marks eJournal: On Church Discipline
The November/December 2009 issue of the Nine Marks eJournal is out. The articles deal with the issue of church discipline, and there are a series of book reviews on ecclesiastical matters. One article in particular caught my attention:
The Preemptive Resignation—A Get Out of Jail Free Card?
Can church members resign their membership to avoid discipline?
By Jonathan Leeman
In my small amount of experience, this has happened several times: a church member does something egregious (e.g., suddenly leaves their spouse, or displays gross financial impropriety), other Christians lovingly confront the member, the member hardens their position, the church moves to an act of formal discipline, and....poof, the person formally resigns their membership in that particular church, possibly finds a new church, and moves on. The question is: Can such a person still be excommunicated? Jonathan Leeman says yes they can, and yes they should. I agree.
November 01, 2009
Understanding The Book of Ecclesiastes
Years ago, Dr. Ardel Canaday wrote an outstanding, lengthy article on the book of Ecclesiastes (arguable one of the least understood biblical books among Christians). In the article, entitled QOHELETH: ENIGMATIC PESSIMIST OR GODLY SAGE?, Canaday cogently refutes the view that Ecclesiastes is an expression of existentialism or a soulless, secular hedonism. On the contrary, in Ecclesiastes we see a nuanced, realistic view of life in a fallen world. Quoheleth (the narrative voice in the book of Ecclesiastes) is a wise sage, instructing believers on how to exercise godly enjoyment in one's work, family, and the created order--as well as find ultimate meaning in the relation of one's activities to his Creator, even activities which (in and of themselves) may often appear frustratingly meaningless (if not, in addition, marred with natural and/or moral evil). Here's an excerpt:
It is Qoheleth's orientation to the Scriptural account of creation which forms his presuppositional basis for a world and life view. He recognized a great disparity between his world and that which came directly from the creative hand of God; the curse had intruded to disrupt the harmony of creation. The evil that Qoheleth observed "under the sun" was not inherent in nor of the essence of creation, but was externally imposed. The curse of Gen 3:17ff. becomes in Qoheleth's language disjointedness and discontinuity or kinks and gaps which are irrevocable (1:15) because they have been imposed by God (7:13). By the curse God subjected creation to the frustration of bondage and decay (cf. Rom 8:19-21), creating the enigma which bewilders men. The world has been turned upside down, so that it bears little resemblance to the pristine paradise that it once was. For Qoheleth then, the world was neither what it once was nor what it will be therefore he designed his book, not to "wrest some form of order from chaos” or to master life, but to bring men to acknowledge that this world and life in it is marked by aimlessness, enigma, and tyranny. Qoheleth upholds the creational design to celebrate life as a divine gift which is to be enjoyed as good, something to be cherished reverently and something in which man delights continually. This, perhaps, is the greatest enigma in Qoheleth--his bold assertion of the meaninglessness of life "under the sun" and his resolute affirmation that life is to be celebrated joyfully. The fact that he unequivocally maintained both is not proof that Qoheleth was a double-minded man--secular and religious. He was not a pessimist who saw nothing better than to indulge the flesh. He was a godly sage who could affirm both the aimlessness of life "under the sun" and the enjoyment of life precisely because he believed in the God who cursed his creation on account of man's rebellion, but who was in the process, throughout earth's history, of redeeming man and creation, liberating them from the bondage to decay to which they had been subjected (cf. Rom 8:19-21). Because Qoheleth was a man of faith, he held this perspective, for it was through his faith in the God who revealed himself that Qoheleth knew what the world once was and what it will be again. It was because of this orientation that so many enigmatic and antithetical considerations and observations are held in proper tension within his mind and within his book.Read the whole thing.
Also, I would highly commend a series of sermons on the book of Ecclesiastes by Pastor Brian Borgman of Grace Community Church in Minden, NV. You'll find them available for free listening at this link on Sermon Audio. Borgman is the author of Feelings and Faith, Cultivating Godly Emotions in the Christian Life (which I've endorsed and about which I've interviewed him).
Free Audio Book: Desiring God (John Piper)
For the month of November, Christian Audio is making available a free audio download of John Piper's book Desiring God. Just use the coupon code DG2009.
Nancy Gibbs on Public Modesty and Arrogance
Nancy Gibbs, writing for Time magazine on public modesty and arrogance:
Humility and modesty need not be weakness or servility; they can be marks of strength, the courage to confront a challenge knowing that the outcome is in doubt. Ronald Reagan, for all his cold-warrior confidence, projected a personal modesty that served his political agenda well. I still don't know what President Obama's core principles are, but the fact that he even pays lip service to humility as one of them could give him the upper hand in the war for the souls of independents — a group that's larger now than at any time in the past 70 years. He was aggressively modest acknowledging his inconvenient Nobel Peace Prize. He regularly makes fun of his ears.Read the whole thing.But I heed Jane Austen's warning that "nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast." If Obama appears proud of how humble and open-minded he is, if he demonizes opponents instead of debating them, if his actual choices are quietly ideological while his rhetoric flamboyantly inclusive, he will be missing a great opportunity — and have much to be modest about.
James Dobson To Leave His Radio Show
Dr. James Dobson, 73, will stop hosting his internationally syndicated radio program Feb. 28, according to an announcement from Focus on the Family officials this past Friday. Health was not an issue, Dobson's spokesman Gary Schneeberger affirmed. Rather:
Dr. Dobson's departure from the radio program and from official affiliation with the organization he founded in 1977 is just the "third chapter in a transition that began in 2003," when Dr. Dobson stepped down as Focus president, said Jim Daly, the ministry's president and CEO. It was a mutual decision between Dr. Dobson and the ministry's board of directors, which Dr. Dobson left in February of this year, Daly added."The Bible tells us that to everything there is a season – and Dr. Dobson's season at Focus on the Family has been remarkable," Daly said. "He has done a superlative job in modeling the graceful transition of leadership from one generation to the next.
HT: Lisa Anderson
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