Bob Abernethy, Longtime Host of PBS Show on Religion, Dies at 93 - News Summed Up

Bob Abernethy, Longtime Host of PBS Show on Religion, Dies at 93


The series covered a wide range of topics, including atheism, abortion, assisted suicide, sexual abuse by clergy and organ transplants. Unless you get the spiritual element of the story, you’re missing something very important. His father began to teach religion at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., but died of complications of appendicitis in 1930. Bob and his mother moved in with his paternal grandparents in Washington, where his grandfather was senior minister of Calvary Baptist Church. Returning to college, he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from what is now the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.


Source: International New York Times May 06, 2021 20:05 UTC



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