Except for the skateboard, surfboard, shaved head and, until recently, the goatee and giant cylindrical earrings implanted in his lobes, Ryan Dobson sees himself as a chip off the old evangelical block.
Ryan, 38, now emerging as a next-generation media minister, served as inspiration for his father's books on parenting, such as "The Strong-Willed Child" and "Parenting Isn't for Cowards."
"I was rebellious sometimes," Ryan said. "I always knew the difference between right and wrong. Sometimes I chose wrong.