The transformative power of the song was investigated by journalist Bill Moyers in a documentary released in 1990.

Moyers was inspired to focus on the song's power after watching a performance at Lincoln Center, where the audience consisted of Christians and non-Christians, and he noticed that it had an equal impact on everybody in attendance, unifying them.

: Bill Moyers: But what happened along the way to this reverence that in primitive societies was directed to the Goddess figure, the Great Goddess, the mother earth-what happened to that?

ALEC was the subject of the September 29, 2012 edition of Moyers & Company hosted by Bill Moyers.

During World War II the Moyers area was the site of two lethal air crashes.

At one time, the hotel was operated by Zilphia Moyers Een, the county ’ s first woman hotel keeper.

" The series was endowed in 1996, and has since brought a diverse selection of speakers to Midland, including Ken Burns, Richard Leakey, Bill Moyers, Mark Russell, Sandra Day O ' Connor, Richard Rodriguez, Shelby Foote, Anna Deavere Smith, John Updike and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Born in Hugo, Oklahoma, to father John Henry Moyers, a laborer, and mother Ruby Moyers ( née Johnson ), he was raised in Texas.

During the Kennedy Administration, Moyers was first appointed as associate director of public affairs for the newly created Peace Corps in 1961.

After the resignation of White House Chief of Staff Walter Jenkins because of a sexual misdemeanor in the run up to the 1964 election, President Lyndon B. Johnson, alarmed that the opposition was framing the issue as a security breach, ordered Moyers to request FBI name checks on 15 members of Goldwater's staff to find " derogatory " material on their personal lives.

Moyers indicated his memory was unclear on why Johnson directed him to request such information, " but that he may have been simply looking for details of allegations first brought to the president by Hoover.

Safer says that Moyers was " if not a key player, certainly a key bystander " in the incident.

But the owner of the paper, Harry Guggenheim, a conservative, was disappointed by the liberal drift of the newspaper under Moyers, criticizing the " left-wing " coverage of Vietnam War protests.

Among their first productions was the popular PBS 1988 documentary series Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, consisting of six one-hour interviews between Moyers and mythologist Joseph Campbell.

Furthermore, Moyers indicated that Hanna gathered support for McKinley's presidential campaign from " the corporate interests of the day " and was responsible for Ohio and Washington coming under the rule of " bankers, railroads and public utility corporations.

There was no effect from the op-eds, and Moyers did not run.

Bush-appointee Corporation for Public Broadcasting chairman Kenneth Tomlinson was a regular critic of Moyers ; in 2003, he wrote to Pat Mitchell, the president of PBS, that " does not contain anything approaching the balance the law requires for public broadcasting.

In 1992 she was featured in the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary The Songs Are Free: Bernice Johnson Reagon with Bill Moyers.

ALEC was the subject of the September 29, 2012 edition of Moyers & Company hosted by Bill Moyers.

Years later, Moyers returned to the Ranch to interview Lucas for a documentary titled The Mythology of Star Wars around the time Star Wars: Episode I was in production.

In 1988, when Chomsky was interviewed by Bill Moyers there were 1, 000 letters in response, one the biggest written reactions in the show's history.

Moyers married Judith Suzanne Davidson ( a producer ) on December 18, 1954.

Moyers interviewed Collins, Cash, opera singer Jessye Norman, Appalachian folk musician Jean Ritchie and her family, white Sacred Harp singers in Georgia, black Sacred Harp singers in Alabama, and a prison choir at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville.

" A prisoner interviewed by Moyers explained his literal interpretation of the second verse: "' Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved " by saying that the fear became immediately real to him when he realized he may never get his life in order, compounded by the loneliness and restriction in prison.

Joseph Campbell in The Power of Myth, a 1988 interview with Bill Moyers, links the image of the Earth or Mother Goddess to symbols of fertility and reproduction.

* Facing the Truth ( 1999 ) by Bill Moyers.

Kenneth Tomlinson, chair of the CPB board from September 2003 until September 2005, angered PBS and NPR supporters by unilaterally commissioning a conservative colleague to conduct a study of alleged bias in the PBS show NOW with Bill Moyers, and by appointing two conservatives as CPB Ombudsmen.

In a special report on ALEC, Bill Moyers summarized it as " an organization hiding in plain sight, yet one of the most influential and powerful in American politics.

In the report, Moyers traced the progress of ALEC model legislation through several legislatures.

Moyers reported on the Common Cause effort to change ALEC's status.

Almost immediately after the Ann Arbor speech, 14 separate task forces began studying nearly all major aspects of United States society under the guidance of presidential assistants Bill Moyers and Richard N. Goodwin.

After task force reports were submitted to the White House, Moyers began a second round of review.

In late 1964 Johnson reviewed these initial Great Society proposals at his ranch with Moyers and Budget Director Kermit Gordon.

These transshipment points grew into the present-day communities of Albion, Moyers, and Antlers.

Some of the more significant communities, such as Jumbo, Moyers, Clayton and Albion, also established cultural leagues or institutions — poetry clubs, music groups, and literary societies – in a bid to be culturally couth.

In " Buying the War " on PBS, Bill Moyers noted 27 editorials supporting George W. Bush's ambitions to invade Iraq.

* Moyers Building, added October 29, 1982.

* Bill Moyers ( born 1934 ), journalist and commentator.

* Moyers Corners – A location south of Mindenville.

* Moyers Corners – A hamlet on NY-31 near the west town line, east of Belgium.

He was ordained deacon 16 June and priest 22 December 1633.

In 1900, with the completion of his licentiate in theology, he was ordained as curate, and that year he witnessed the Oberammergau Passion Play.

To distinguish abbots from bishops, it was ordained that their mitre should be made of less costly materials, and should not be ornamented with gold, a rule which was soon entirely disregarded, and that the crook of their pastoral staff ( the crosier ) should turn inwards instead of outwards, indicating that their jurisdiction was limited to their own house.

Within a week, Ambrose was baptized, ordained and duly consecrated bishop of Milan.

In 1807 he was ordained in the priesthood in the Church of England.

Since John Wesley ordained and sent forth every Methodist preacher in his day, who preached and baptized and ordained, and since every Methodist preacher who has ever been ordained as a Methodist was ordained in this direct " succession " from Wesley, then the Methodist Church teaches that it has all the direct merits coming from apostolic succession, if any such there be.

While Judah I was still living, Rav, having been duly ordained as teacher — though not without certain restrictions ( Sanhedrin 5a )— returned to Babylonia, where he at once began a career that was destined to mark an epoch in the development of Babylonian Judaism.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

At first a gnostic Valentinian and Marcionist, Ambrose, through Origen's teaching, eventually rejected this theology and became Origen's constant companion, and was ordained deacon.

He was ordained a deacon by the contemporary patriarch, Alexander of Alexandria, in 319.

In about 692, in Bede's nineteenth year, Bede was ordained a deacon by his diocesan bishop, John, who was bishop of Hexham.

The earliest organization of the Church in Jerusalem was according to most scholars similar to that of Jewish synagogues, but it had a council or college of ordained presbyters ( elders, priests ).

The first woman bishop within Anglicanism was Barbara Clementine Harris, who was ordained in the United States in 1989.

Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.

There he was ordained, and obtained a reputation both as a professor and a preacher.

" Confucius's moral system was based upon empathy and understanding others, rather than divinely ordained rules.