Bill Moyers Essay: Freedom of and From Religion
In this video essay, Bill Moyers addresses the question of how to honor religious liberty without it becoming the liberty to impose on others moral beliefs they don’t share. The recent debate over...
View ArticlePoet Christian Wiman on Love, Faith, and Cancer
Bill Moyers has a moving conversation with acclaimed poet and Poetry Magazine editor Christian Wiman about how finding true love and being diagnosed with a rare and incurable blood cancer reignited his...
View ArticleFull Show: Where Movies End and Politics Begins
This weekend’s Moyers & Company starts with a compelling Bill Moyers Essay: Is it fair for parents to opt out of vaccinations for their children on the basis of religion or philosophy? Bill weighs...
View ArticleElaine Pagels on Sex in the Bible
In this memorable clip from A World of Ideas (1988), Princeton University religion professor Elaine Pagels explains how different interpretations of the Bible lead to both positive and negative...
View ArticleFull Show: The Case for Old-School Faith & Politics
Two movements once at the vital center of our society, liberal politics and American Christianity have gone astray. In separate conversations on this weekend’s Moyers & Company, Eric Alterman and...
View ArticleRoss Douthat on Modern Christian ‘Heretics’
Ross Douthat, the conservative op-ed columnist for The New York Times and author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, talks with Bill Moyers about how traditional and institutional...
View ArticleVideo: ‘Nuns on the Bus’ Visits Paul Ryan’s Office
A group of nuns led by Sister Simone Campbell is driving from the small towns of the Midwest to the urban centers of the East to protest the House Republican budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)....
View ArticleNuns on the Bus Brings Light to Capitol Hill
After two weeks, nine states and 2,700 miles on the road, the Nuns on the Bus tour concluded its trip Monday with a final stop in Washington, D.C. The nuns visited soup kitchens, homeless shelters and...
View ArticleMike Lofgren on Dysfunction in Our Political Parties
Bill talks with Mike Lofgren, a long-time Republican who describes the modern dysfunction of both the Republican and Democratic parties. In Lofgren’s view, Republicans have become overly obsessed with...
View ArticleKaren Armstrong on the Power of Compassion
In this Moyers Moment from a 2009 episode of Bill Moyers Journal, Bill talks with Karen Armstrong about her discovery of compassion within herself, and her work to understand world religions and global...
View ArticleClip: Bill McKibben on Caring for Creation
Bill Moyers asks author and environmental activist Bill McKibben about the premise of an article McKibben wrote for OnEarth Magazine in 2006, entitled, “Will Evangelicals Help Save The Earth?” McKibben...
View ArticleChristianity and Judaism
Religious historian Huston Smith believes Christianity would never have existed if, at the time, “spirit had not been real and dense and palpable and evident to everyone around.” And he finds the...
View ArticleFreedom to Teach? Academic Freedom Post 9/11
Just days after September 11th, a California professor lashed out at Islam…and ignited a controversy. This episode of NOW with Bill Moyers questioned whether freedom of speech was collateral damage in...
View ArticleJoseph Campbell Myths To Live By, Part Two
Part two of Bill Moyers’ series of interviews with Joseph Campbell in 1981. TRANSCRIPT JOSEPH CAMPBELL: There’s a fine saying in India, with respect to these two orders of myths, you know, the folk...
View ArticleThe Kingdom Divided
Bill Moyers tells the story of two different visions of Christianity and how each is finding a pulpit and battleground in Central America. In Nicaragua, the Sandanistas’ view of Christianity says that...
View ArticleRobert Bellah: The Changing Face of Elections
Bill Moyers spoke with sociologist Robert Bellah about the American political climate. As campaigning politicians increasingly look at the polls every week, they’re not thinking about educating the...
View ArticleTemptation
Bill Moyers examines Adam and Eve’s tasting of the forbidden fruit and their subsequent expulsion from Eden. The discussion looks at freedom of choice, the nature of good and evil, the meaning of sin...
View ArticleRichard Rodriguez & Sir John Houghton
Acclaimed journalist and essayist Richard Rodriguez talks about the intersection of his personal life and the vexing cultural political problems facing America. And, widely recognized as one of the...
View ArticleKnow Thy Neighbor: An Imam in Controversy in Cleveland
Are Americans divided in their loyalties between their faith and country? Do Muslims in America believe they pray to a god of love or a god of hate? Is public interest or corporate greed driving...
View ArticleSpeaking to Power: Riverside Church’s Rev. James Forbes
In an American religious climate growing increasingly fundamentalist, conservative and intolerant of difference, New York City’s Riverside Church is a beacon, and a remarkable house of God. A tower of...
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