You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about the passing of Focus on the Family Founder, Dr. James Dobson.

We're also going to talk about the ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria and the mass exit of American parents from the public school system. We have a lot to get to you

this week. We're so glad you're with us. Stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the

Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, president of the

Colson Center. John, we are recording this, of course,

on Thursday afternoon, and we received word this week as the rest of the world did that Dr.

Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, has passed away. So he obviously had a huge impact on

my life, on the country, arguably on the world, and surely on you and your work as well.

Do you want to share a little bit about that?

Well, it was a giant.

And I think there's a lot of things to think about.

First of all, it's that this is another and a generation that has now died, that had an outsized role in American culture as evangelicals.

I mean, we just recently talked about John MacArthur.

Obviously, we were founded by Chuck Colson, who died over 10 years ago, Billy Graham,

you know, Charles Stanley.

The list goes on and on and on. And, you know,

a lot of people, I think, are asking, you know, will any, will anything be like that again,

where you have this kind of, these kinds of leaders? It's hard to overestimate the legacy of

Jim Dobson.

You know, the amount of things that he founded and the impact that he had at the heyday

of Focus on the Family Radio is absolutely incredible.

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