christian wiman says people today are seeking a new language for speaking about god.anguage that goes beyond words, concepts or even doctrine, that taps into a genuine experience of the divine, what he calls "glimmers of god." >> if you ask me, do i get glimpses of god, yes, i get these glimmerings of intuitions, stronger than that really, where the existence of god seems to me absolute. we all go through our lives and then suddenly we'll have a moment when we think, i have faith right now in something. i find that i've had these moments in my life when i have been overcome by what i only know to call god. think of the atoms inside the stone. think of the man who sits alone trying to will himself into the stillness where god goes belonging. in my experience, the artists that i know, even though they wouldn't call themselves christians, some would, but they are the ones who are fighting to remake some kind of language to connect us with the ineffable, with the divine. if we think that metaphor is how we talk of god, and that seems to me very hard to dispute that there'

we ask bill w wiman, an al jazeera culture critic. summer was a time for rerun, but networks are spending millions crank out new tv. this is a time when people are away. kids are at camp. why so? >> sometimes you have a hit or a flop. now they play three-dimensional chest and have opponents above, besides and everyone is moving complicated in a complicated fashion, whether on the internet, opponent, networks or the new-fangled cable networks that are doing better and better programming.

. >>> also judy valenti looks at the spiritual journey of christian wiman, a poet, teacher, husband,ather who has incurable cancer. >> i have cursed mightily and have been furious, have cursed god just like any old testament prophet. >>> and the jewish holiday of shavuot, celebrating the harvest and the torah, and proclaiming -- >> that you should be really, really, really happy.

joining me is bill wiman. this is a man heard on radio stations around the world. what do you think his success was. >> it's a little hard to explain to people. he was the carson daly. but for some reason the charts were important. it mattered that stevie wonder debuted at number one, he tapped into that. he was a little dorky. that was a secret. he didn't try to be hip. it gave the billboard charts authority and people agreed whether you like it or not, it's number one or nom 10. it fed on himself. >> he gave fun facts about the artists and didn't like to say goodbye. he had a distinctive sign off. >> he'd say keep your feet on the ground and reach for the stars, and - i love the trivia, working at record stores when i was a kid and loved the trivia about who had the most number one albums in the 1970s, and then there were the long distance dedication. sometimes they were a pet who died. steams a boyfriend -- sometimes a based who moved away and "casey, will you play "me and you against the world"" sometimes it was odd. a woman in chicago had a dream to do an unsp

we ask bill w wiman, an al jazeera culture critic. summer was a time for rerun, but networks are spending millions crank out new tv. this is a time when people are away. kids are at camp. why so? >> sometimes you have a hit or a flop. now they play three-dimensional chest and have opponents above, besides and everyone is moving complicated in a complicated fashion, whether on the internet, opponent, networks or the new-fangled cable networks that are doing better and better programming. what happens is cyclicly every few years they say "nobody watches tv during the summer, let's throw something on the wall and see what sticks", they try that. there's a hit. like "under the dome", for c.b.s. everyone is on the bandwagon. >>> you mentioned the opponent. cable networks pay and free and basic cable led the way. >> no, they honestly did. remember, this goes back 10 years, fox famously went all in on summer 10 or 12 years ago, but what everywhere forgets is the shows they put up flopped. so it doesn't always happen. a.b.c. wept all in on su