Bill Moyers â?? raised Southern Baptist but best known for his career as a broadcast journalist and political commentator on PBS â?? had only a brief skirmish in the Southern Baptist Convention battle over biblical inerrancy that divided the nationâ??s largest Protestant denomination in the 1980s and 1990s, but it left a mark that changed the way Baptists get their news.
Moyers, 80, was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1954 and earned a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1959. He worked both as a pastor and director of information at the SBC seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, before joining the staff of the newly created Peace Corps during the Kennedy administration.
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