News broke last week that Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, passed away at age 89. Not surprisingly, the internet erupted with tributes – both positive and negative – causing me to reflect on the ways Dobson affected my life personally.

On the surface, one wouldn’t think he had much impact. Although my family regularly listened to his radio program in my early childhood years, we drifted away from it as I entered middle school, as we began disagreeing with some of the ideas he advanced.

But looking beneath the surface tells a much different story. In the 1980s, Dobson hosted a man named Dr. Raymond Moore on his program, in which they talked about a strange, almost unknown concept called homeschooling. Through a variety of circumstances, my parents decided to try it, unkno

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