Bobby Ross Jr

Religion will play a role in Tuesday’s midterm election, from mobilizing participation to seeking precinct integrity to influencing voter decisions. Here are five faith-related questions to watch.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DALLAS — In 1941, businessman Robert S. Bell became a partner with Earle Wyatt, an entrepreneur who founded Wyatt Food Stores Inc., which emerged as […]

After reading a recent piece this week at Religion Unplugged — headlined “AI might be conscious. If so, God help us” — I was curious: “Does AI have a soul?”

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I caught up via Zoom this week with Wes Woodell, a Tennessee-based ministry technology strategist who founded Connect My Church. I wanted to talk […]

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — For a family with children, a vacation at the Great Wolf Lodge indoor water park resort can cost thousands of dollars. That’s […]

A recent news release from Christianity Today touted the magazine’s “new editorial leadership team.” It failed to mention the latest round of journalist layoffs that has critics questioning the magazine’s commitment to reporting.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Pennsylvania. Oklahoma. And now, South Dakota. In the “Reunited” series, The Christian Chronicle traveled to three locations — a 3,400-mile triangle […]

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Two brothers-in-law. Two ministers of the Gospel. Two split congregations. The story behind the Sioux Falls Church of Christ — a […]

In the wake of Christa Pike’s botched lethal injection in Tennessee, Weekend Plug-in columnist Bobby Ross Jr. reflects on the role of spiritual advisers at executions. The practice has a history that precedes the founding of the United States.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DEARBORN, MICH. — On the 25th anniversary of 9/11 last month, I found myself in this Detroit suburb. I came to work on a […]

An anti-Islam rally promoted as a “Christian Crusader March” drew hundreds of demonstrators and counterdemonstrators to this majority Arab American city of Dearborn, Michigan. A few men carried assault rifles as police in riot gear patrolled. The Sunday after the recent protest, minister Wayne Beaso

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11 last month, Weekend Plug-in columnist Bobby Ross Jr. found myself in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michgan. He came to work on a story related to America’s ongoing war over words over Muslims and their place in U.S. society. While coincidental, the timing struck R

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DEARBORN, MICH. — An anti-Islam rally promoted as a “Christian Crusader March” drew hundreds of demonstrators and counterdemonstrators to this majority Arab American city […]

Garth Pleasant, a legendary small-college basketball coach who won 720 games and four national championships in 38 seasons at Rochester Christian University in Michigan, offers life lessons from his 77 years on planet Earth.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ANN ARBOR, MICH. — My amazing friend Garth Pleasant texted me a few months ago. “Bobby, I can get tickets for the Oklahoma game,” […]

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 you were gonna do,” said Lisi, now Religion Unplugged’s executive editor. “One day it was covering a fire. The next day you’re covering a murder.” O

Christianity and pornography don’t mix. Except that they often do — whether believers and church leaders want to talk about it or not.

Since the news broke Tuesday that Dolly Parton “is in the arms of Jesus,” Weekend Plug-in columnist Bobby Ross Jr. has joined countless millions of fans in reflecting on her life, her legacy — and yes, her faith.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Like Jesus urged his followers to do, Dolly Parton loved her neighbors. But what about loving her enemies, another biblical commandment? I’m guessing the […]

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ‘Mr. & Mrs. Carl Dean.” The black-and-white picture of the newlywed couple appeared in a 1966 directory of the Radnor Church of Christ in Nashville. […]