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 …