Author: Bobby Ross Jr.

Bobby Ross Jr. is an award-winning journalist who has reported from all 50 states and 20 countries.
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Religion Unplugged

💉As in Christa Pike’s case, spiritual advisers often play a role at executions 🔌

Editor’s note: Every Friday, “Weekend Plug-in” meets readers at the intersection of faith and news. Click to join nearly 10,000 subscribers who get this column delivered straight to their inbox. Got feedback or ideas? Email Bobby Ross Jr. By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged OKLAHOMA CITY — Four years before Oklahoma became the 46th state, a woman named Dora Wright was executed in frontier territory in 1903. Wright paid the ultimate price … Continue reading 💉As in Christa Pike’s case, spiritual advisers often play a role at executions 🔌

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Christian Chronicle

How a Michigan church embraces its Muslim neighbors

As an anti-Islam rally ignites controversy, a Detroit-area congregation works to share the love of Jesus. By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Christian Chronicle DEARBORN, Mich. — An anti-Islam rally promoted as a “Christian Crusader March” drew hundreds of demonstrators and counterdemonstrators to this majority Arab American city of 110,000. A few participants carried assault rifles as police in riot gear patrolled. The Sunday after the … Continue reading How a Michigan church embraces its Muslim neighbors

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Religion Unplugged

☪️ Inside America’s ongoing war of words over Muslims 🔌

Editor’s note: Every Friday, “Weekend Plug-in” meets readers at the intersection of faith and news. Click to join nearly 10,000 subscribers who get this column delivered straight to their inbox. Got feedback or ideas? Email Bobby Ross Jr. By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged DEARBORN, Mich. — On the 25th anniversary of 9/11 last month, I found myself in this Detroit suburb. I came to work on a story related to America’s … Continue reading ☪️ Inside America’s ongoing war of words over Muslims 🔌

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Religion Unplugged

📖 Preacher, educator, coach: Five life lessons from a hoops legend 🔌

Editor’s note: Every Friday, “Weekend Plug-in” meets readers at the intersection of faith and news. Click to join nearly 10,000 subscribers who get this column delivered straight to their inbox. Got feedback or ideas? Email Bobby Ross Jr. By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged ANN ARBOR, Mich. — My amazing friend Garth Pleasant texted me a few months ago. “Bobby, I can get tickets for the Oklahoma game,” he informed me. … Continue reading 📖 Preacher, educator, coach: Five life lessons from a hoops legend 🔌

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Religion Unplugged

🗽 25 years after 9/11, we remember the darkness and the light 🔌

Editor’s note: Every Friday, “Weekend Plug-in” meets readers at the intersection of faith and news. Click to join nearly 10,000 subscribers who get this column delivered straight to their inbox. Got feedback or ideas? Email Bobby Ross Jr. By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged Clemente Lisi was a 26-year-old general assignment reporter for the New York Post on Sept. 11, 2001.  “Every day you’d get up, and you didn’t know what … Continue reading 🗽 25 years after 9/11, we remember the darkness and the light 🔌

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Religion Unplugged

⚠️ Christianity’s dirty little secret — and how these believers overcame it 🔌

Editor’s note: Every Friday, “Weekend Plug-in” meets readers at the intersection of faith and news. Click to join nearly 10,000 subscribers who get this column delivered straight to their inbox. Got feedback or ideas? Email Bobby Ross Jr. By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged Christianity and pornography don’t mix. Except that they often do — whether believers and church leaders want to talk about it or not. Over half of practicing … Continue reading ⚠️ Christianity’s dirty little secret — and how these believers overcame it 🔌

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Religion Unplugged

❤️ We will always love her: How Dolly Parton lived out her personal faith 🔌

Editor’s note: Every Friday, “Weekend Plug-in” meets readers at the intersection of faith and news. Click to join nearly 10,000 subscribers who get this column delivered straight to their inbox. Got feedback or ideas? Email Bobby Ross Jr. By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged Just like Jesus taught his followers to do, Dolly Parton loved her neighbors. But what about loving her enemies, another biblical commandment? I’m guessing the entertainment icon, … Continue reading ❤️ We will always love her: How Dolly Parton lived out her personal faith 🔌

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Christian Chronicle

📽️ ‘American Martyr’: Slain priest’s canonization cause hits the big screen 🔌

Editor’s note: Every Friday, “Weekend Plug-in” meets readers at the intersection of faith and news. Click to join nearly 10,000 subscribers who get this column delivered straight to their inbox. Got feedback or ideas? Email Bobby Ross Jr. By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged OKLAHOMA CITY — María Ruiz Scaperlanda is looking for a miracle. More specifically, she’s seeking a miracle that can be attributed — and authenticated — to the … Continue reading 📽️ ‘American Martyr’: Slain priest’s canonization cause hits the big screen 🔌

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Religion Unplugged

⚾️ Chicago White Sox give away 40,000 pope hats: 5 things to know 🔌

Editor’s note: Every Friday, “Weekend Plug-in” meets readers at the intersection of faith and news. Click to join nearly 10,000 subscribers who get this column delivered straight to their inbox. Got feedback or ideas? Email Bobby Ross Jr. By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged “Best day at work ever.” That’s how my friend Bob Smietana responded when I asked if he enjoyed covering “Pope Night” at the Chicago White Sox game … Continue reading ⚾️ Chicago White Sox give away 40,000 pope hats: 5 things to know 🔌

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