Bill Moyers

Moyers Expands on How Soft Power Will Save Democracy from Decline

by Jamie Landers on August 13, 2019

Journalist Bill Moyers gives the first lecture of Week Eight's theme on soft power with his lecture, "The Other Face of Power," Monday Aug. 12, 2019 at the Hall of Philosophy. SARAH YENESEL/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER In

Moyers explains why America is “rich in promise”

by Kelly Powell on July 16, 2017

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Bill Moyers loves community. He has spent his whole life trying to form it, even when he is the only

Column: Confronting a ‘crisis of identity’ and a ‘cultural climate change’

by David Geary on July 13, 2017

Editor’s Note: Daily staff writer David Geary is on assignment for the Department of Religion this week, providing dispatches from

Journalist Bill Moyers to deliver his final thoughts on the future of faith

by Delaney Van Wey on July 13, 2017

Bill Moyers believes that faith cannot exist without doubt. Now, at the end of a week of intense discussion that

Harvard chaplain Greg Epstein discusses ‘reason and compassion’ for a meaningful life

by Kelly Powell on July 13, 2017

To open his lecture, Greg Epstein told two stories. In his essay titled “Once More to the Lake,” E.B. White,

Rabbi Sid Schwarz and Bill Moyers to address how young Jews find faith and community

by Delaney Van Wey on July 12, 2017

Rabbi Sid Schwarz likes to say he has the body of a 60-year-old, but the heart of a 20-year-old. This has given Schwarz the ability to communicate with both the younger and older generations of

Greg Epstein and Bill Moyers to discuss how humanist communities can protect against the alt-right

by Delaney Van Wey on July 11, 2017

As mainstream religion loses influence, Greg Epstein is working to build communities for the increasing number of nonreligious people. Epstein

Robert Jones mourns the loss of ‘white Christian America’ as the nation’s majority

by Kelly Powell on July 11, 2017

Robert Jones thinks “white Christian America” has died. And he wrote the obituary to prove it. Jones, the author of

Rev. Susan Smith and Bill Moyers will examine oppression in religion and government

by Delaney Van Wey on July 10, 2017

The two most sacred texts in this country, the Bible and the Constitution, have been failing us for centuries. At

Bill Moyers and Robert Jones to discuss population decrease in white evangelicals

by Delaney Van Wey on July 9, 2017

Although this week’s theme at Chautauqua Institution is “A Crisis of Faith?,” Robert P. Jones believes there is also a

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