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'''Ed Dobson''' (December 29, 1949—December 26, 2015) was a long-serving Northern Irish-American pastor, a [[University of Virginia]] [[Doctor of Education|Ed. D.]] in higher education, a popular founding dean of [[Liberty University]],<ref name = BanksWashPoObit/> and an early executive at the [[Moral Majority]]. He went on from the early decade of work with [[Jerry Falwell]] to grow disillusioned with Christian participation in the political process,<ref name=PBS_GiAinterview/> and to spend 18 years as pastor of Calvary Church, a [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]] [[megachurch]].{{citation needed|date = December 2024}}<!--The PBS work cited earlier does not support "megachurch" or the Calvary period, and so it demands a {{Citation needed|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}.--> He was a nationally known author and speaker on Christian and other issues, including after being diagnosed with [[ALS]] in 2000.<ref name = MericaCNNbb201202>{{cite news | author = Merica, Dan | date = February 18, 2012 | title = Facing Death, A Top Pastor Rethinks What It Means To Be Christian | work = [[CNN.com]] | via =  [[The Washington Post]] | url = http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/18/tending-the-garden-one-person-at-a-time/ | url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219171305/http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/18/tending-the-garden-one-person-at-a-time/| archive-date=19 February 2012| access-date = 13 December 2024 | location = Atlanta, GA; New York, NY | publisher= CNN Belief Blog  | quote = Editor's Note: The short film accompanying this story, called "My Garden," comes from EdsStory.com. CNN.com is premiering the latest installment in the "Ed's Story" series.}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
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Born Edward G. Dobson{{clarify | date = December 2024}}{{citation needed | date = December 2024}} on December 29, 1949, in [[Northern Ireland]],<ref name=LeeCT20151229>{{cite web | author = Lee, Morgan | date = December 29, 2015 | title = Died: Ed Dobson, Pastor and One-Time Moral Majority Leader | format = obituary | work = [[ChristianityToday.com]] | url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/2015/12/died-ed-dobson-pastor-and-one-time-moral-majority-leader/ | access-date=December 13, 2024 |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= | quote = Born on December 29, 1949, in Northern Ireland, Dobson immigrated to the US at the age of 14.}}</ref> Dobson was a pastor's son and came to the United States in 1964 at the age of 14.<ref name = BanksWashPoObit>{{cite news | author = Banks, Adelle M. | date = December 29, 2015 | title = Ed Dobson, Retired Pastor and Onetime Moral Majority Leader, Dies at 65 | work = [[Religion News Service]] | via =  [[The Washington Post]] | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/ed-dobson-retired-pastor-and-onetime-moral-majority-leader-dies-at-65/2015/12/29/ecc86874-ae78-11e5-b281-43c0b56f61fa_story.html | access-date = 13 December 2024}}</ref><ref name=LeeCT20151229/>

Dobson earned a BA (1970) and an MA (1972) from [[Bob Jones University]],{{citation needed|date = December 2024}} and an [[Doctor of Education|Ed. D.]] (1986) in higher education from the [[University of Virginia]].<ref name=MerrillCT970811/>{{better source needed|date = December 2024}}<ref name = DobsonEdDDiss>{{cite thesis |last= Dobson |first= Edward (Ed) G. |date= 1986 |title= An Analysis of the Environmental Perceptions of Undergraduate Students In Evangelical and Fundamentalist Bible Colleges and Liberal Arts Colleges |url= https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u793170 |degree= [[Doctor of Education|Ed. D.]] |chapter= | location = Charlottesville, VA | publisher=  |docket= |oclc= |access-date=}}</ref><!--<ref>Marquis ''Who's Who'', 2008.</ref> Who's Who sells space to present autobiographies. There is no fact-checking, it is not a third party, independent source, and so it is not compliant with WP:VER.-->

==Career==
As Dean Merrill stated in ''Christianity Today'' in 1997,<blockquote>[Dobson] arrived in Lynchburg at age 23. His first job was to be Liberty University’s dean of men, but before long he was also teaching New Testament survey, coaching the soccer team, and taking on more administrative duties. In time, Dobson was named vice president for student life as well as associate pastor of [[Thomas Road Baptist Church]]. When the [[Moral Majority]] was organized [by [[Jerry Falwell]]] in June 1979, he was on the board.<ref name=MerrillCT970811>{{cite magazine | author = Merrill, Dean | date = August 11, 1997 | title = The Education of Ed Dobson, Part I | magazine = Christianity Today | url = http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1997/august11/7t926a.html | access-date = 13 December 2024}} See end of Part II of the series, for disclosure of the author's name. Note, Merrill does not state the years of Dobson's degrees.</ref></blockquote>

As a founding dean of [[Liberty University]], Dobson was popular [with students and colleagues].<ref name = BanksWashPoObit/> Journalist Merrill goes on to state, "Three years later [ca. 1982], the premiere issue of ''Fundamentalist Journal'' [a new Falwell-founded publication] listed him as one of two senior editors, and he became editor-in-chief two and a half years after that."<ref name=MerrillCT970811/><!--THIS AND PRECEDING MATERIAL WAS NOT IN "zondervan1" CITATION.--> In the same time frame, Dobson and another Liberty faculty member, [[Ed Hindson]], effectively ghost-wrote Falwell's ''[[The Fundamentalist Phenomenon]]''.{{full citation needed|date = December 2024}}<ref name = ThomasDobsonBlinded>Thomas, Cal & Dobson, Ed (1981) ''Blinded by Might: Can the Religious Right Save America?'', Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. Dobson said that they produced "the material so he could edit it... we were putting Jerry's political agenda in writing."{{page needed|date = December 2024}}</ref>{{rp|pg. unknown}}

By the late 1980s, Dobson had expressed what he acknowledges as disillusionment toward Christian participation in the political process,<ref name=PBS_GiAinterview>{{cite web | author = PBS Staff & Dobson, Ed | date = October 15, 2009 | series = [[God in America (series)|God in America]] | title = Interview: Ed Dobson | format = edited transcript | work = [[PBS.org]] | url = https://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/interviews/ed-dobson.html | access-date = 13 December 2024 | quote = Pastor emeritus of Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., Dobson worked for Jerry Falwell for more than a decade, and drafted the Moral Majority's platform. He later co-authored ''Blinded by Might'', a book critical of the religious right, and recently published ''The Year of Living Like Jesus''. This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on Oct. 15, 2009.}}</ref> and he moved away from fundamentalism toward mainstream evangelicalism,{{citation needed|date = December 2024}} deciding that the rationale behind the Moral Majority had been wrongheaded—that to a significant degree cultural problems could not be remedied through the political process.<ref name = ThomasDobsonBlinded/>{{rp|p.15}}{{primary source inline|date = December 2024}}{{verify source|date = December 2024}} In 1987, Dobson left Liberty (just as Falwell became responsible for the empire of failed [[televangelist]] [[Jim Bakker]]).<ref name=LibertyAlumAutobio/>{{third-party inline|date = December 2024}}{{verify source|date = December 2024}}

Dobson took the position of [[senior pastor]] at Calvary Church in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]], where he would remain for eighteen years (1987–2005).<ref name=LibertyAlumAutobio>[http://www.liberty.edu/media/1612/alumni_page/Summer%2005%20Single%20Page%20newsletter.pdf Liberty University website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901104917/http://www.liberty.edu/media/1612/alumni_page/Summer%2005%20Single%20Page%20newsletter.pdf |date=1 September 2006 }}.{{better source needed|date = December 2024}}</ref> While pastor there, Dobson mentored a number of young men who had recently entered the ministry or were considering doing so, including [[Rob Bell]], Michael Hidalgo, Jim Samra, Brett Werner, and Marvin Williams.{{citation needed|date = December 2024}} During Dobson's pastorate, Calvary planted [[Mars Hill Bible Church]], which would be led by [[Rob Bell]].<ref>[http://ctlibrary.com/le/2004/spring/1.24.html ''Christianity Today'' website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060728220548/http://www.ctlibrary.com/le/2004/spring/1.24.html |date=28 July 2006 }}.</ref>

Dobson was diagnosed with [[amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]] (ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease) in 2000.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Shelley, Marshall; Reed, Eric; Zahn, Drew & Dobson, Ed | date = 2001 | title = Leave Room For God | journal = [[Leadership Journal]] | format = introductory biography and interview | volume = 22 | issue = 4, Fall | via = CTLibrary.com | url=http://www.ctlibrary.com/le/2001/fall/1.28.html | accessdate=December 30, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080710232144/http://www.ctlibrary.com/le/2001/fall/1.28.html| archive-date=10 July 2008| url-status=dead | location = Wheaton, IL | publisher= [[Christianity Today]]}}</ref> Dobson continued in the pastorate of Calvary Church until 2005,<ref name=LibertyAlumAutobio/> wrote the memoir, ''Prayers and Promises when Facing a Life-Threatening Illness'', published by Zondervan in 2007,<ref>Dobson, Edward G. (2007) ''Prayers and Promises when Facing a Life-Threatening Illness'', Grand Rapids: Zondervan.</ref> and served as an advisory editor for [[Christianity Today]].{{when|date = December 2024}}<ref name="zondervan1"/><!--Prior to 2008.-->

== Publications ==
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*''Abraham: The Lord will Provide'' (1993).{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}
*''Blinded by Might'' (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999) with [[Cal Thomas]].{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}
*''Daniel: Making the Right Choices'' (1994).{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}
*''King James Bible Commentary'' (1999).{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}
*''The Knowing Jesus Study Bible'', NIV (2000) with Ed Hindson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faithfulreader.com/FEATURES/gold_medallion_awards.asp |accessdate=July 1, 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512054122/http://www.faithfulreader.com/features/gold_medallion_awards.asp |archivedate=May 12, 2008 }}</ref>
*''Mastering Conflict and Controversy'' (1992).{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}
*''Prayers and Promises When Facing a Life-Threatening Illness'' (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007).{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}
*''Starting a Seeker-Sensitive Service'' (1993).{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}
*''What the Bible Really Says about Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage'' (1986).{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}
*''The Fundamentalist Phenomenon'' (1st edition 1980, 2nd edition 1986) with Ed Hindson and Jerry Falwell.{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}
*''The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000'' (1997).{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}
* ''The Year Of Living Like Jesus'' (2009).{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}
* ''Seeing through the Fog: Hope When Your World Falls Apart'' (2012).{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}
*''Ed's Story'' (2001–2015)''.{{full citation needed | date = December 2024}}<ref name="edsstory.com"/>

==Awards and recognition==
In 1993, [[Moody Bible Institute]] named Dobson "Pastor of the Year".<ref name="zondervan1">{{cite web | author = Dobson, Edward G. & Zondervan Staff | date = 2008-06-18 | title = Edward G. Dobson | format = author biography | work = Zondervan.com | url=http://www.zondervan.com/Cultures/en-US/Authors/Author.htm?ContributorID=DobsonE&QueryStringSite=Zondervan | accessdate=June 30, 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618223609/http://www.zondervan.com/Cultures/en-US/Authors/Author.htm?ContributorID=DobsonE&QueryStringSite=Zondervan |archive-date=June 18, 2008 | quote = Edward G. Dobson / Ed Dobson, pastor emeritus of Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, serves as an advisory editor for Christianity Today and consulting editor for Leadership. He holds an earned doctorate from the University of Virginia, was named "Pastor of the Year" by Moody Bible Institute, and is author of numerous books including Blinded by Might and Starting a Seeker Sensitive Service. He moved to the USA in 1964 from Northern Ireland and now lives with his family in Grand Rapids.}}</ref> In Spring 2008, [[Grand Rapids Theological Seminary]] dedicated a "Dobson Study Center" in its classroom building to honor Dobson's long pastorate and television ministry in Grand Rapids.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://grts.cornerstone.edu/prospects/admission/campus |accessdate=July 1, 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515073606/http://grts.cornerstone.edu/prospects/admission/campus |archivedate=May 15, 2008 |title=Campus & Grand Rapids - Grand Rapids Theological Seminary }}</ref>

==Personal life==
Dobson lived for much of the latter part of his life in Grand Rapids, Michigan,<ref name="zondervan1"/>{{better source needed|date = December 2024}} and his family included two sons, Kent and Daniel.<ref name = CT2012/><ref name = HoneyGRP2013/>

A short video was made of Dobson's struggle with his ALS,<ref name="edsstory.com">{{cite web|url=http://edsstory.com/|title=Ed's Story|accessdate=December 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101151233/http://edsstory.com/|archive-date=January 1, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was widely viewed.{{citation needed | date = December 2024}} Ed Dobson died on December 26, 2015, at age 65.<ref name = BanksWashPoObit/>

===Altruism===
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Dobson was a Corvette enthusiast, and participated in a cross-country drive on [[Route 66]] to raise money for ALS research, an event tht drew "40 friends and a dozen Corvettes" and raised on the order of $275,000; he stated, at the time,"I’m just praying this trip will... lead to greater awareness and... research to find a cure, probably not for me but for others".<ref name = BanksWashPoObit/>

===Personal criticisms===
As noted in his obituary, some religious conservatives had earlier criticized Dobson "for his decision to have an occasional beer while testifying about his Christian faith".<ref name = BanksWashPoObit/> The obituary, widely circulated through syndication, was by Adelle M. Banks (for the [[Religion News Service]]), and went on to state that the wrestling he did in his "Year of Living Biblically" likewise resulted in criticism, as it<blockquote>led the man who once helped run the now-defunct Moral Majority to vote for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time, even though he disagreed with then-Sen. Barack Obama about abortion. / "I felt that Mr. Obama was closer to the essence of Jesus’ teachings—compassion for the poor and the oppressed, being a peacemaker, loving your enemies and other issues," he wrote in an explanation of his decision.<ref name = BanksWashPoObit/><ref>{{cite web| author = Christian Century Staff | date=2009-02-10 | title = Critics: Man 'Living Like Jesus' Should Not Have Voted for Obama | work = [[The Christian Century]] | url = http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2009-02/critics-man-living-jesus-should-not-have-voted-obama | url-status = dead | url-access = subscription | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110807090147/http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2009-02/critics-man-living-jesus-should-not-have-voted-obama | archive-date = 2011-08-07 | accessdate=2024-12-13}}</ref></blockquote>

===Family publicity===
Dobson's son, Kent, became pastor of [[Mars Hill Bible Church]] (formerly pastored by Rob Bell, whom Ed Dobson had mentored) but resigned in November 2015, telling the congregation that he was "not drawn to the orthodox or the mainstream or the status quo."<ref name = CT2012>{{cite web|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/august-web-only/mars-hill-bible-church-names-rob-bells-successor-kent-dobso.html|title=Mars Hill Bible Church Names Rob Bell's Successor: Kent Dobson|author=Fenton, Heidi | work=Religion News Service |via = ChristianityToday.com|date=23 August 2012 |accessdate=December 30, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/03/mars_hill_bible_church_pastor.html|title=Profile: Mars Hill Bible Church pastor Rob Bell|work=MLive.com|accessdate=December 30, 2015|date=2008-03-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| author = Lamb, W. Scott | date = 2015-11-30 | work= [[The Washington Times]] | title=Megachurch Pastor Decides Being a Pastor 'Is Not Really Who I Am'| url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/30/w-scott-lamb-megachurch-pastor-decides-being-a-pas/ | accessdate=December 30, 2015}}</ref>

In May 2013, Dobson's son Daniel, a U.S. Army veteran of the Iraq war, came out publicly as gay.<ref name = HoneyGRP2013>{{cite news | last = Honey | first = Charley | title = Daniel Dobson, Son of Prominent West Michigan Minister, Talks About Being a Gay Christian | newspaper = Grand Rapids Press | date = May 29, 2013 | url = http://www.mlive.com/living/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/05/daniel_dobson_son_of_prominent.html | accessdate = May 30, 2013}}</ref>

==Further reading and viewing==
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* {{cite web | author = Vande Bunte, Matt | date = December 29, 2015 | title = A Look Back at Ed Dobson's Ministry | work = [[MLive.com]] | format = News-Grand Rapids | url = https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2015/12/ed_dobson.html#0 | access-date = 13 December 2024 | quote = }}
* {{cite web | author = Vande Bunte, Matt | date = December 28, 2015 | title = Ed Dobson, Prominent Pastor, Has Died | work = [[MLive.com]] | format = News-Grand Rapids | url = https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2015/12/ed_dobson_prominent_pastor_has.html | access-date = 13 December 2024 | quote = }}
* {{cite news | author = Merica, Dan | date = February 18, 2012 | title = Facing Death, A Top Pastor Rethinks What It Means To Be Christian | work = [[CNN.com]] | via =  [[The Washington Post]] | url = http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/18/tending-the-garden-one-person-at-a-time/ | url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219171305/http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/18/tending-the-garden-one-person-at-a-time/| archive-date=19 February 2012| access-date = 13 December 2024 | location = Atlanta, GA; New York, NY | publisher= CNN Belief Blog  | quote = <!--Editor's Note: The short film accompanying this story, called "My Garden," comes from EdsStory.com. CNN.com is premiering the latest installment in the "Ed's Story" series.-->}}
* {{cite AV media |people= Barker, Greg (writer-producer); Espar, David (producer-editor); Powell, Julie (producer); Lehmann; Frank-Peter (principal cinematography); et al.; [[Randall Balmer|Balmer, Randall]]; [[Stephen Prothero|Prothero, Stephen]]; Dobson, Ed; et al. (interviewees); [[Campbell Scott|Scott, Campbell]] (narrator) |date= October 11–13, 2010 | series = [[American Experience|PBS American Experience]]: [[God in America]] | title= Episode 6: Of God and Caesar |trans-title= |type= AV transcript |language= en |url= https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/godinamerica/#transcript |access-date= 13 December 2024 |archive-url= |archive-date= |format= |time= |location= Washington, DC |publisher= Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) |id= |isbn= |oclc= |quote= }} For cast and crew, see [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/godinamerica/#cast_and_crew this link], and to view the Episode 6 video, see [https://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/view/ this link].
* {{cite web | author = PBS Staff & Dobson, Ed | date = October 15, 2009 | series = [[God in America (series)|God in America]] | title = Interview: Ed Dobson | format = edited transcript | work = [[PBS.org]] | url = https://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/interviews/ed-dobson.html | access-date = 13 December 2024 | quote = <!--<small>Pastor emeritus of Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., Dobson worked for Jerry Falwell for more than a decade, and drafted the Moral Majority's platform. He later co-authored ''Blinded by Might'', a book critical of the religious right, and recently published ''The Year of Living Like Jesus''. This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on Oct. 15, 2009. ... PBS: At some point you become disillusioned with politics. Talk to me about that, what led to that and how you came to write a book called Blinded by Might: The Religious Right Can't Change America. Dobson: Yeah. When I came to Grand Rapids to pastor Calvary Church, I decided I didn't care what happened to America, and I didn't care what happened to politics. I was going to try and figure out what it meant to be a Jesus follower in the local church in Grand Rapids, Mich. / So when I arrived here, I refused all interviews with the media. For years, I refused to talk to the media. I got out of the circles of political activism and worked hard at living out our faith in this community. We got involved early on helping people with HIV-AIDS, no matter how they got it. We adopted the worst elementary school, gave them $50,000 to upgrade their library, provided over 200 volunteers that do reading and math, tutoring at the school. / So I decided, you can change culture, but it's one heart at a time, one school at a time, making a difference, and that politics, while it's attractive, really doesn't accomplish much.</small>-->}}
* {{cite thesis |last= Dobson |first= Edward G. (Ed) |date= 1986 |title= An Analysis of the Environmental Perceptions of Undergraduate Students In Evangelical and Fundamentalist Bible Colleges and Liberal Arts Colleges |url= https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u793170 |degree= [[Doctor of Education|Ed. D.]] |chapter= | location = Charlottesville, VA | publisher=  |docket= |oclc= |access-date=}}

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