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🗳️ 5 religion questions to watch in the midterm election 🔌

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 — I have vivid memories of voting in my first presidential election in 1988, when Republican George H.W. Bush … Continue reading 🗳️ 5 religion questions to watch in the midterm election 🔌

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Oklahoma SPJ honors Bobby Ross Jr. with four awards

By Bobby Ross Jr. OKLAHOMA CITY — I was pleased to win first place for outstanding column/commentary in the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists’ 2026 annual contest. The SPJ honored my April 19, 2025, column for Religion Unplugged on the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. In the Best of the Best competition, I earned second place for Reporter of the Year for a … Continue reading Oklahoma SPJ honors Bobby Ross Jr. with four awards

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🤖 Is AI going to kill us? A cybermissionary weighs in 🔌

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 I caught up via Zoom this week with Wes Woodell, a Tennessee-based ministry technology strategist who founded Connect My Church. … Continue reading 🤖 Is AI going to kill us? A cybermissionary weighs in 🔌

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💉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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☪️ 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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📖 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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🗽 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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⚠️ 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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❤️ 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 🔌