Before Hope Restored Publishes Another Success Rate: 12 Questions Its Longitudinal Study Must Answer October 4, 2026: Focus on the Family’s Hope Restored Marriage Intensive has...
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What Would It Take to Make Hope Restored Safe?
The Hope Restored Marriage Intensive talks constantly about safety. Here’s what a truly safety-first model would require. Let’s first look at Hope Restored’s curriculum One of...
A Reform Proposal for Focus on the Family’s Next President: 8 Changes for Safer Families
Focus on the Family is approaching an unusually important crossroads. Jim Daly plans to step down in 2027 after more than two decades of leadership as president, and Focus is...
Before You Choose a Focus on the Family Counselor, Ask These 4 Questions
Before You Choose a Focus on the Family Counselor, Ask These 4 Questions Can This Counselor Distinguish Marital Conflict From Abuse? Focus on the Family’s Christian Counselors...
Hope Restored’s Bait-and-Switch: Why Focus on the Family’s Marriage Intensives Disappoint
Hope Restored’s Bait-and-Switch Why Focus on the Family’s Marriage Intensives Are So Disappointing A couple signs up for a $3,000-$6,000 Hope Restored marriage intensive, often...
Why Focus on the Family’s Marriage Advice Fails When One Spouse Is the Problem
Why Focus on the Family’s Marriage Advice Fails When One Spouse Really Is the Problem The Problem with the Reactive Cycle (Formerly Called the Fear Cycle or Fear Dance)...
Focus on the Family and Estrangement: Did James Dobson’s Parenting Advice Help Cause It?
Focus on the Family helped teach a generation of Christian parents that control was love, punishment produced character, children should not be allowed to “win,” and resistance...
What Are Focus on the Family Donors Really Funding? An Investigation into Hope Restored and Abuse
Are Christian Donors Funding a System That Keeps Abuse Victims Married? Focus on the Family receives desperate calls about abuse every week. What happens next? Most Christians...
If Divorce Ruins Children, How Did Jim Daly Become Focus on the Family’s President?
Jim Daly’s Life Exposes the Problem with Focus on the Family’s Divorce Narrative By Gretchen Baskerville Focus on the Family often warns that divorce devastates children for...
Review: “Combatting the Lies That Can Destroy Your Marriage,” a Focus on the Family Video
Review of “Combatting the Lies That Can Destroy Your Marriage,” a Focus on the Family Video Series Based on the book 9 Lies That Will Destroy Your Marriage, a Focus on the Family...
12 Half-Truths in Focus on the Family’s “How Could Divorce Affect My Kids?”
12 Half-Truths in Focus on the Family’s “How Could Divorce Affect My Kids?” Focus on the Family should be ashamed of this article. Why? Because it tells frightened parents that...
Rating Focus on the Family’s Premarital Advice Articles
Scorecard for Premarital Articles from Focus on the Family Are you a pastor, parent, or friend wondering whether certain Focus on the Family articles are wise premarital reading?...
What Resources Does Focus on the Family Give to Abuse Victims on Social Media?
Thousands of Pleas for Help Every week, thousands of people reach out to Focus on the Family, many “experiencing painful and often destructive situations… even incidents of...
Book Review of Ready to Wed? by Focus on the Family: Helpful—but Incomplete
Ready to Wed? Premarital Curriculum from Focus on the Family 5 Pros and 9 Cons for Pastors and Small Group Leaders Ready to Wed? is a structured, church-friendly premarital...
Pastors and Christian Divorcees: What LifeWay’s Surveys Reveal About the Church Divorce Gap
Pastors and Christian Divorcees: What the LifeWay Surveys Reveal About the Church Divorce Gap In 2015, Focus on the Family sponsored LifeWay Research to conduct multiple surveys...
Pastors: Think Twice Before Using Focus on the Family’s Marriage Ministry Materials
Pastors: Think Twice Before Using Focus on the Family’s Marriage Ministry Materials I am pro-marriage. I have spent years defending covenant faithfulness, calling out serial...
What the LifeWay Divorce Study Reveals — And Why Focus on the Family Isn’t Talking About It
The LifeWay Divorce Study: What the Data Reveals — And What Focus on the Family Hasn’t Addressed In 2015, LifeWay Research conducted a national survey of 1,000 churchgoers who...
Terrible Forgiveness Articles That Blame Victims and Excuse Predators
Terrible Forgiveness Articles That Blame Victims and Excuse Predators Some Christian forgiveness articles sound compassionate at first. They talk about grace, freedom,...
Are “Traditional Marriage Vows” Biblical? How Focus on the Family Misuses Them
Focus on the Family’s “5 Traditional Marriage Vows”: Are These Even Biblical — and How Are They Misused? Recent Focus on the Family social media and article present five phrases...
Why James Dobson’s Article Is So Useful to Predators
Why James Dobson’s Article Is So Useful to Predators Many people wonder why Jeffrey Epstein would recommend a James Dobson article to one of his victims. For audio summary in...
When Parent-Adult Child Reconciliation Fails: Why Focus on the Family Gets It Wrong
When Parent–Adult Child Reconciliation Fails Why the Focus on the Family Series on Parent-Adult Child Estrangement Misses It For audio summary in multiple languages If you...