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Faith & Reason host Bill Moyers.
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7. The Exegesis of the Old Testament on Prime-Time Television
Over and over in the PBS series Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, such writerly guests as Salman Rushdie, Mary Gordon, Richard Rodriguez, and Margaret Atwood butted their talking heads against obdurate questions about good, evil, mystery, miracles, and martyrdom. If you want to know what the book of Job really means, it’s this: “I’m God and you’re not!”


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