Posted by: Jim | November 18, 2008

Poor Dobson, Literally

The Denver Post is reporting

Focus on the Family announced Monday that it will cut 202 staff positions at its Colorado Springs headquarters, beginning at month’s end. Of these jobs, 149 are filled and 53 positions are vacant, officials said. About 20 percent of the positions are in management. Most of the jobs end Nov. 28; however, some will be phased out December through February. These losses and 46 layoffs announced by the ministry in October will bring its staff size to about 950, down from about 1,200 last year, said Focus chief operating officer Glenn Williams.

While I feel badly for the employees, I can’t help but feeling that Dobson’s organization is getting just what it deserves. He long ago stopped ‘focusing on the family’ and turned his gaze to political power, which alone has been his central concern for decades now. Aside from that, Dobson should probably consider the fact that, as he would put it, God is withholding blessing from an organization that is living is disobedience to the divine will. If Focus has to close it’s doors, it’s because God wishes it to die off. By the same token, it is also God’s will that Focus shrivel before it dies.


Responses

  1. Christian fatalism is alive and well.

  2. So this Family focused organization is slashing a good number of jobs right before Christmas?

  3. ironic huh…

  4. I think Dobson tried to get out of politics once before… and the giving dropped off so dramatically and they had to let go so many people that they went back to it. Maybe the current crisis will enable him to focus on the family for good this time…

  5. Having followed the slow train wreck that is happening to the Episcopal Church, I don’t think it is only the conservative side that is bleeding money.

    Perhaps though the enormous growth in African Anglicans, raised to limit the world wide power of the American Anglicans was all part of God’s plan …… yeah, right!


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