tavis: for my money, nobody has ever done it better than bill moyers. i have the honor to be on the network at least that overlapped his service for a number of years, but long before i got to pbs, i was a bill moyers fan, watching and learning and being in power by his work down the years. but there is a science or race or religion or theology, parts, anything you could imagine being discussed, bill moyers has had wonderful conversations about it on this network down through the years. i am delighted. his new book is called "bill moyers' journal -- the conversation continues." bill moyers, i am delighted to have the on this program tonight. >> thank you for spending time with us. >> thank you. thank you for keeping the conversation going. tavis: i appreciated. that is our show for tonight. until then, good night from l.a., and as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today'>> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and r

bill moyers. there's no gossipiness, and so people feel better for watching home on tv. you might enjoy watching other things more, but you feel better about yourself. while you've seen bill moyers. and in that sense, he's a lot like going to church himself. [laughter] >> so here he is. he is a giant in our time, he recently announced his retirement, whatever that may mean, he has a lot of work to do as we will point out to him here. he is underneath the easy going southern interior, very ambitious, working man that drives the people that work for him, and as a fellow fundamentalist, no matter what you might think, this is a man with deep sense of personal unworthiness, we were brought up for this. and they made their mark on it, and it never goes away. and a deep need for redemption and i hope he'll redeem himself here tonight. mr. bill moyers. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> i didn't know there were this many lutherans left in st. paul. you must have bust him in from la

bill moyers was helpful also in inspiring us he he said this is the most dangerous moment in american history we're either going to be a nation of and by and for the people who are of and by and for corporations and that i think was part of a motivating force to get us started and i have to tell you that there are going to roll out demonstrations like we did at the capitol all across the country in august and september as different faith groups have prayer ins and sit ins and other opportunities in congressional districts and when the twelve are named in the super committee this could be a lot of attention put on them common cause working with some other good government groups each of those twelve to pledge that they won't be raising money from the day they're appointed. the day they come out with their report from special interest groups and secondly that they would be fully transparent on the corporate leaders the lobbyists. all of the special interests that they meet with but that will be completely open and we are hoping that faith leaders across the country will go into their sta

i just read a recent interview with bill moyers. boy moyers was asked what his greatest fear was, and his greatest fear was that we in america would accept greater and greater inequality, wealth inequality, as the norm. that we would accept a greater and greater inequality as norm normal. well, here's maybe what he was talking about. from 2005-2009, the median net worth -- median net worth -- of hispanic households went down 66%. the median net worth of african-american households went down 53%. the median net worth of white caucasian households went down 16%. the median net worth right now of a white caucasian family in america is 20 times that of an african-american family, 18 times that of an hispanic fami family. this is twice the gap since before the recession and it's the biggest gap since this data was collected by the bureau of labor statistics since 1984. do you see what's happening? our country is pulling apart. fewer and fewer people at the top getting more and more weal wealth. more and more people at the bottom, destroy

within ds i heard bill moyers say on television, i think he was quoting his son -- coincidences are god's way of manifesting and coincidences kept happening and then i ended up moving to georgia and meeting people who had something that i was fascinated with and so i went -- i enrolled in the largest institution that trains african-american ministers, the interdenominational theological seminary. i took this little old white lady there, and nobody knew who i was until i had done monster-in-law and it's like my god, there's the woman who beat up jennifer lopez in our class now. i took it serious and i studied it and i still do. >> when you look at this life, this love, health, sex -- sex? what have you learned about sex? >> well, when you get older there's a lot of changes that go on. and if you choose to continuto be sual, not everyone does and you don't have to but if you do, you have to understand what they are and you have to know how to work with them and negotiate with them so that you can have safe and pleasurable sex. and that's one of the things that is unusual about the book, you