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LTRP NOTE:<\/strong> According to the following news report, Focus on the Family founder, James Dobson, has stepped down from his long standing, popular radio program. Lighthouse Trails has reported on a number of occasions regarding Focus on the Family’s promotion of contemplative spirituality. The question must be asked, will Focus on the Family’s vision\u00a0turn\u00a0toward the new spirituality that incorporates a contemplative, mystical, emerging spirituality? Time will tell.<\/p>\n

“Focus Takes Next Step in Leadership Transition”<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"COLORADO SPRINGS, Nov. 2 \u00a0\/Standard Newswire<\/a>\/ — Focus on the Family Founder and Chairman Emeritus James C. Dobson, Ph.D., will leave the ministry as its primary radio voice at the end of February, the ministry announced Friday.<\/p>\n

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. Click here <\/a>to read the rest of this news story.<\/p>\n

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