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Remembering Our Founder: Dr. James C. Dobson (April 21, 1936 — August 21, 2025)
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Remembering Our Founder: Dr. James C. Dobson (April 21, 1936 — August 21, 2025)
Focus on the Family founder and chairman emeritus James C. Dobson, Ph.D., died on August 21, 2025. He was 89.
“Dr. Dobson’s legacy is in the people he touched and the families he helped,” Focus on the Family President Jim Daly said. "Millions of marriages were saved and strengthened, millions of parents were able to raise happier, healthier children, and millions of men and women were equipped and encouraged to stand boldly for their faith in the public square because Dr. Dobson answered God's call to create Focus on the Family.
“We join the millions across America and the world in mourning his passing."
Dobson’s ministry efforts grew out of his professional work as a licensed psychologist in California. Although he eventually became associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the USC School of Medicine, Dobson’s attention ultimately turned to the breakdown of the traditional family. His concern led him to leave USC and in 1977 open a small, two-room office he called Focus on the Family.
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Pro-Abortion States Beef Up Protections for Abortion Pill Prescribers
By: Emily Washburn
Pro-abortion states are passing laws stripping prescriber names off chemical abortion pill labels.
The laws further insulate doctors who prescribe chemical abortion pills to people in pro-life states from investigation and prosecution.
Prescription Label Laws
New York, Maine, Vermont, Washington and Colorado have passed laws allowing prescribers to remove their names from prescriptions for mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs used in a chemical abortion.
The laws make it nearly impossible for pro-life states to identify out-of-state, online abortionists — let alone investigate or sue them.
It’s unclear whether this kind of legislation is even legal; federal law requires prescriber names appear on all drug labels. But, so far, the laws remain unchallenged — and deeply problematic for pro-life states.
Importantly, prescription label laws making abortionists anonymous cover both local doctors prescribing abortions and doctors from other states that fill orders through local pharmacies.
That means a mail-order abortionist in California could strip his name from a chemical abortion prescription if he filled the script at a pharmacy in New York.
California hopes to capitalize on this loophole by passing AB 260 — a bill that would remove both prescriber and patient names from chemical abortion pill labels.
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New Report: Over 400 Attacks on Churches in 2024
By: Jeff Johnston
A new report from Family Research Council (FRC) shows that there were 415 attacks on churches in 2024, affecting 383 different churches.
The report, Hostility Against Churches in the United States: Analyzing Incidents from 2025, explains that these attacks include vandalism, arson, gun-related incidents and bomb threats. Other crimes included “physical assault, disruption of church services, and general threats of harm.”
FRC notes that these are reported attacks, but “many cases likely went unreported to law enforcement or unpublished by news outlets or other publicly available sources,” which the organization relied on as sources for the data.
The organization, which advocates in Washington, D.C., for life, marriage, family, free speech and religious freedom, was founded by Dr. James Dobson in 1983.
From 1988 to 1992, FRC was a division under Focus on the Family.
The first report on hostility against churches was published in 2022, but that initial analysis “covered incidents that occurred between January 2018 and September 2022.”
While 2023 had the highest number of crimes against churches, at 485, this past year had the second highest number. Overall, there has been a significant increase in attacks on churches since 2018.
The report explains the types of crimes that took place in 2024.
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President Trump, Heaven and Our Father’s Greatest Gift
By: Paul Batura
During an interview Tuesday on Fox & Friends, President Donald Trump spoke at length about Monday’s historic White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders.
Sharing his burden over the rising death toll suffered on both sides in eastern Europe, President Trump then offered, with a seeming smile in his voice, another motivation for trying to help broker a peace deal.
“I want to try and get to heaven, if possible,” he explained. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.”
For Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times, President Trump’s comments were quite shocking. From the Old Grey Lady’s White House beat writer:
“This would have been a highly unusual admission from any president, but it seemed especially out of character coming from this one. The man who is regarded as a messiah by many of his own supporters — a belief he has encouraged at every turn — says now that he knows he’s no saint.”
“This fear of perdition raised some questions. Chief among them: Who, exactly, has been informing the president that he is “not doing well” with regard to kingdom come? Did Michael the Archangel somehow get Mr. Trump’s cellphone number?”
Heaven comes up a lot in popular cultural conversation, and even with people who may not even consider themselves “religious.”
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Five Courageous Christians
By: John Stonestreet
After his amazing victory on Mount Carmel against the prophets of Baal, Elijah fell into deep depression. Not only had he seen God work in a miraculous way, he’d proven before Israel Who was the one true God. And yet, he immediately questioned whether God could protect him from Jezebel and (falsely) believed that he was the only true prophet left in Israel:
“I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”
There’s much to learn in this story, both about the vulnerabilities of humans and the kindness of God. For example, I love that the author of 1 Kings includes the detail that God sent an angel to Elijah to help him sleep and cook him food. Also, by informing Elijah of the 7,000 people in Israel who had not bowed a knee to Baal, God was reminding Elijah that He was still very much at work in the world, and that He primarily works through His people.
God has His people everywhere. Often, He uses unlikely candidates to be courageous voices of truth. The upcoming film Truth Rising tells the story of five courageous voices in this civilizational moment.
As a young teenager, Chloe Cole was so completely lost and deceived about who she was, she underwent a double mastectomy attempting to be male. God worked in her life to reveal what was true about who she is, and now, having “detransitioned,” she advocates for the truth that humans are made in God’s image, male and female. She is now a powerful force pushing back against the darkness.
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Remembering Our Founder: Dr. James C. Dobson (April 21, 1936 — August 21, 2025)
Focus on the Family founder and chairman emeritus James C. Dobson, Ph.D., died on August 21, 2025. He was 89.
“Dr. Dobson’s legacy is in the people he touched and the families he helped,” Focus on the Family President Jim Daly said. "Millions of marriages were saved and strengthened, millions of parents were able to raise happier, healthier children, and millions of men and women were equipped and encouraged to stand boldly for their faith in the public square because Dr. Dobson answered God's call to create Focus on the Family.
“We join the millions across America and the world in mourning his passing."
Dobson’s ministry efforts grew out of his professional work as a licensed psychologist in California. Although he eventually became associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the USC School of Medicine, Dobson’s attention ultimately turned to the breakdown of the traditional family. His concern led him to leave USC and in 1977 open a small, two-room office he called Focus on the Family.
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Pro-Abortion States Beef Up Protections for Abortion Pill Prescribers
By: Emily Washburn
Pro-abortion states are passing laws stripping prescriber names off chemical abortion pill labels.
The laws further insulate doctors who prescribe chemical abortion pills to people in pro-life states from investigation and prosecution.
Prescription Label Laws
New York, Maine, Vermont, Washington and Colorado have passed laws allowing prescribers to remove their names from prescriptions for mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs used in a chemical abortion.
The laws make it nearly impossible for pro-life states to identify out-of-state, online abortionists — let alone investigate or sue them.
It’s unclear whether this kind of legislation is even legal; federal law requires prescriber names appear on all drug labels. But, so far, the laws remain unchallenged — and deeply problematic for pro-life states.
Importantly, prescription label laws making abortionists anonymous cover both local doctors prescribing abortions and doctors from other states that fill orders through local pharmacies.
That means a mail-order abortionist in California could strip his name from a chemical abortion prescription if he filled the script at a pharmacy in New York.
California hopes to capitalize on this loophole by passing AB 260 — a bill that would remove both prescriber and patient names from chemical abortion pill labels.
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New Report: Over 400 Attacks on Churches in 2024
By: Jeff Johnston
A new report from Family Research Council (FRC) shows that there were 415 attacks on churches in 2024, affecting 383 different churches.
The report, Hostility Against Churches in the United States: Analyzing Incidents from 2025, explains that these attacks include vandalism, arson, gun-related incidents and bomb threats. Other crimes included “physical assault, disruption of church services, and general threats of harm.”
FRC notes that these are reported attacks, but “many cases likely went unreported to law enforcement or unpublished by news outlets or other publicly available sources,” which the organization relied on as sources for the data.
The organization, which advocates in Washington, D.C., for life, marriage, family, free speech and religious freedom, was founded by Dr. James Dobson in 1983.
From 1988 to 1992, FRC was a division under Focus on the Family.
The first report on hostility against churches was published in 2022, but that initial analysis “covered incidents that occurred between January 2018 and September 2022.”
While 2023 had the highest number of crimes against churches, at 485, this past year had the second highest number. Overall, there has been a significant increase in attacks on churches since 2018.
The report explains the types of crimes that took place in 2024.
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President Trump, Heaven and Our Father’s Greatest Gift
By: Paul Batura
During an interview Tuesday on Fox & Friends, President Donald Trump spoke at length about Monday’s historic White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders.
Sharing his burden over the rising death toll suffered on both sides in eastern Europe, President Trump then offered, with a seeming smile in his voice, another motivation for trying to help broker a peace deal.
“I want to try and get to heaven, if possible,” he explained. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.”
For Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times, President Trump’s comments were quite shocking. From the Old Grey Lady’s White House beat writer:
“This would have been a highly unusual admission from any president, but it seemed especially out of character coming from this one. The man who is regarded as a messiah by many of his own supporters — a belief he has encouraged at every turn — says now that he knows he’s no saint.”
“This fear of perdition raised some questions. Chief among them: Who, exactly, has been informing the president that he is “not doing well” with regard to kingdom come? Did Michael the Archangel somehow get Mr. Trump’s cellphone number?”
Heaven comes up a lot in popular cultural conversation, and even with people who may not even consider themselves “religious.”
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[link removed]
Five Courageous Christians
By: John Stonestreet
After his amazing victory on Mount Carmel against the prophets of Baal, Elijah fell into deep depression. Not only had he seen God work in a miraculous way, he’d proven before Israel Who was the one true God. And yet, he immediately questioned whether God could protect him from Jezebel and (falsely) believed that he was the only true prophet left in Israel:
“I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”
There’s much to learn in this story, both about the vulnerabilities of humans and the kindness of God. For example, I love that the author of 1 Kings includes the detail that God sent an angel to Elijah to help him sleep and cook him food. Also, by informing Elijah of the 7,000 people in Israel who had not bowed a knee to Baal, God was reminding Elijah that He was still very much at work in the world, and that He primarily works through His people.
God has His people everywhere. Often, He uses unlikely candidates to be courageous voices of truth. The upcoming film Truth Rising tells the story of five courageous voices in this civilizational moment.
As a young teenager, Chloe Cole was so completely lost and deceived about who she was, she underwent a double mastectomy attempting to be male. God worked in her life to reveal what was true about who she is, and now, having “detransitioned,” she advocates for the truth that humans are made in God’s image, male and female. She is now a powerful force pushing back against the darkness.
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