Dr. James Dobson will be back on the radio next week, but not on the Focus on the Family broadcast he hosted for decades.Starting Monday, Dobson will host Family Talk, a ministry he launched after leaving Focus on the Family in February. He says it will be carried on about 200 radio stations, compared to the thousands of stations that broadcast his former program.
The Focus board had asked Dobson to step aside, but the 74-year-old evangelical says he also felt "God's hand" at his back, pushing him to leave so the ministry he founded in 1977 wouldn't die with him.
On his last broadcast in February, Dobson said his new show wouldn't compete with Focus on the Family, noting that Focus agreed to donate $1 million to help get it started.
[Editor's Note: Among the networks carrying Dr. Dobson's new radio program will be American Family Radio, a ministry of the American Family Association. It will air daily beginning Monday, May 3 on AFR's Talk network at 6:30 a.m. Central, and on AFR's Inspirational network at 9:30 a.m. Central, and can be heard online.]
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