`Religion & Ethics' Show First of Its Kind

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Bob Abernethy was an NBC News correspondent in Moscow from

1989 to 1994 when he knew it was time to come home.

A broadcast reporter for four decades, he covered the end of

the Cold War and the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union

before his retirement. Earlier in his career, he wrote

extensively about space exploration and the American black

experience.

But Abernethy may have found his true calling with his latest

assignment. The journalist, who in 1984 studied theology and

social ethics at Yale Divinity School, is executive editor and

host of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. A …