Finding My Religion

I have a hard time understanding why those of a fundamentalist bent don't find meaning in helping their fellow beings...plenty of meaning there!--Dictynna

Bill Moyers talks about faith, reason and his new PBS special

David Ian Miller, Special to SF Gate

Monday, June 19, 2006

Can religion and reason peacefully coexist? From a scan of the headlines it doesn't seem so. The world appears polarized, incapable of even agreeing to disagree on matters of faith.

Journalist Bill Moyers believes that conversation can lead to a cure for what ails us -- but not conversation in which people simply shriek at each other. Moyers, who describes himself as "neither wholly a believer nor wholly a skeptic," thinks we can move away from pitting reason against faith and give equal weight to both in our discussions. Science can illuminate faith, and faith can inform science.