Reporter Moyers honored by two Baptist entities

DENVER — Bill Moyers, veteran reporter and ordained Baptist minister, has been honored by two Baptist organizations.

Moyers was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the American Baptist Convention in Denver July 2. In a separate honor, Wake Forest University Divinity School and the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty have created a program named after Moyers and his wife, Judith, a longtime children’s advocate.

James and Marilyn Dunn, friends of the Moyerses, donated $100,000 to the school in Winston-Salem, N.C., a Baptist Joint Committee statement reported.

Starting in the spring of 2006, graduate students may apply for the Moyers Scholar program, which will provide one recipient a year with a semester internship at the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty in Washington.

Moyers served as a reporter for CBS and PBS and as press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson. He has won more than 30 Emmy Awards and was a founding organizer of the Peace Corps during the Kennedy administration. He earned his bachelor’s of divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. (BP)