Oklahoma Baptist University
Oklahoma Baptist University is a small Christian liberal arts university in Shawnee, 30 minutes east of Oklahoma City. At OBU you will learn how all knowledge connects and how that framework can be informed by a thoughtful Christian worldview. You will have the choice of 88 areas of study, four master’s degree programs, the opportunity to work and study abroad and the chance to engage faculty mentors. All of this occurs in a supportive, Christian community; one that's dedicated to the highest intellectual and ethical standards. Intellectual, social and spiritual growth ... this is what an OBU education is all about.www.okbu.edu
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Sep 9, 2026
David BazzelHOST
Of course, you represent obviously all the schools.
David BazzelHOST
You're an OBU grad.
David BazzelHOST
I am.
David BazzelHOST
And I
Sarah Huckabee SandersGUEST
notice once again that I keep thinking that if I keep coming back, you will have that OBU pennant on the wall.
Sarah Huckabee SandersGUEST
Roger, how have we
David BazzelHOST
not got that in there? Have we not got that done? Yeah, a lot of respect for OBU.
David BazzelHOST
I mean, you have
Wade FransonHOST
She serves as professor of New Testament at Wheaton College and is the author of Women and the Gender of God, Multiple Works on Hebrews, and Ordinary Time, the Season of Growth, published in January 2026, so just recently.
Wade FransonHOST
She was trained at Princeton Theological Seminary and Oklahoma Baptist University.
Wade FransonHOST
She brings together rigorous exegesis and theological reflection on how Scripture speaks about God the Father and Mary as the mother of God.
Wade FransonHOST
and men and women as God's children.
ChaseGUEST
Yeah.
ChaseGUEST
So when I was in college, I went to JUCO in California, in Fullerton, California, and then from there went to Oklahoma Baptist for another two years.
ChaseGUEST
So I, I lived out, right outside of OKC for a couple years.
speaker_0HOST
Okay.
Clint ConqueGUEST
Southern Arkansas losing.
Clint ConqueGUEST
But, you know, Oklahoma Baptist may be pretty good.
Clint ConqueGUEST
And that's kind of my game of the week this week is Oklahoma Baptist at Henderson.
Clint ConqueGUEST
But SAU, OBU lost at home.
Clint ConqueGUEST
You know, so three of the schools won, three of the schools lost.
Clint ConkGUEST
Southern Arkansas losing.
Clint ConkGUEST
But, you know, Oklahoma Baptist may be pretty good.
Clint ConkGUEST
And that's kind of my game of the week this week is Oklahoma Baptist at Henderson.
Clint ConkGUEST
But SAU, OBU lost at home.
Clint ConkGUEST
You know, so three of the schools won, three of the schools lost.
Bobby McGrawHOST
My guest today on the podcast is Dr. Heath Thomas.
Bobby McGrawHOST
He's the president of Oklahoma Baptist University.
Bobby McGrawHOST
But one of the reasons why I wanted to sit with him for this question today is because he told me a little bit about a story that growing up that he often saw God as a checklist God and that if you wanted to be on God's good side, you followed all the rules.
Bobby McGrawHOST
And then the moment that you broke any of them.
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Heath ThomasGUEST
And what happens when we do is he unlocks the totality of life.
Heath ThomasGUEST
And the Dutch Reformed tradition, I think I would say, came to me after my master's degree.
Heath ThomasGUEST
I did an English undergrad at my alma mater at Oklahoma Baptist University.
Heath ThomasGUEST
World-class education, great experience.
Ryan GlennHOST
They will just be competing here very soon, but where will they be playing at?
Brie ConwayHOST
Oh, they are going to the Oklahoma Baptist University in Blue Springs, Missouri.
Brie ConwayHOST
That'll be interesting.
Brie ConwayHOST
They're going to the Central Region Preview.
Brayden CookGUEST
And so it's, it's funny, Baptists in, in...
Brayden CookGUEST
This, this happened all the time at OBU.
Brayden CookGUEST
They a- they appeal to Tertullian for the delay, de- deferment of baptism as if it supported their position, but his whole reasoning depends upon the fact that baptism forgives sin.
Brayden CookGUEST
And so, uh, it, it, it's-
David BazzelHOST
I think Arkansas Tech won.
David BazzelHOST
OBU lost, which was surprising.
David BazzelHOST
But the main one was Harding.
David BazzelHOST
So Arkansas Tech won.
Justin AcriHOST
57-21 over Southern Nazarene.
Justin AcriHOST
Southern Arkansas lost at Oklahoma Baptist.
Justin AcriHOST
A little disappointing there.
Justin AcriHOST
38-20 East Central.
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