Bobby Ross Jr.
Managing Editor, The Christian Chronicle
Recent Articles
- All the more Pleasant
- Illegal immigration pits law vs. mercy
- Popcorn, nachos ... and sex talk
- It's a bird, it's a plane ... it's a scary thing
- From 'serve us' to service
- Ministry matchmaking: Students find churches
- After the tornado: $2 million short
- Pain, suffering and God’s plan in wife’s illness
- Remembering 2011: The year in quotes
- Funding on the decline: Children's homes still a core church ministry?
Recent Blog Posts
- Tim Perrin named sixth president of Lubbock Christian University
- Lubbock Christian, Oklahoma Christian to name new presidents
- Western Christian College and High School in Canada to close
- Ohio Valley University students form boxing team
- Cool video: 'Soul Food' on the menu for Wyoming youth group
- Day of prayer organized for Charles Siburt as he battles cancer
- Texas church family mourns teen who 'kept on smiling'
- Air-conditioning units donated to Florida church after theft
- Faulkner University to equip students with iPads
- It's a bird, it's a plane ... it's a scary thing
Background
Bobby Ross Jr. got his first newspaper byline as a 16-year-old high school sophomore in 1984.
Suffice it to say that he loved seeing his name in print.
Nearly three decades later, he still can’t shake his passion for journalism: His professional experience includes 22 years as a full-time reporter and editor.
Bobby, 44, joined The Christian Chronicle as managing editor in 2005. A 1990 journalism graduate of Oklahoma Christian University, he has reported from 45 states and nine countries with the Chronicle.
"What an incredible blessing!" he says of the opportunity to report news that informs, inspires and unites members of Churches of Christ.
Bobby also contributes to GetReligion.org, a popular website that critiques the secular media's coverage of religion news, and writes freelance stories for Christianity Today. He's a member of the Religion Newswriters Association and serves as a judge for the Society of Professional Journalists' prestigious national Sigma Delta Chi Awards.
Before joining the Chronicle, he worked three years as a religion and enterprise writer for The Associated Press in Nashville and Dallas, nine years as a reporter and editor for The Oklahoman and three years as a staff writer for small daily and weekly newspapers.
In Bobby's time with the Chronicle, he and his talented colleagues have been blessed to receive 34 national awards from the Associated Church Press and 31 state awards from the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists.
Bobby and his wife, Tamie, the Chronicle's advertising director, are the proud parents of three brilliant children: Brady, 18; Keaton, 14; and Kendall, 12. The Rosses are members of the Edmond Church of Christ in Oklahoma.
Personal Page: http://bobbyrossjr.com
