Terri Gross has come a long, long way since I began listening to her show in the mid-1980s. In the past she wouldn't even touch religion and if it came up she could be brutally dismissive, but over the past ten years or so she not only seems to have understood the importance of religion in American cultural life, but she also seems to have matured beyond what appeared to be a stereo-typically knee-jerk liberal response to religion - and I say this as a very liberal Protestant much culturally in tune with Gross. Denzel Washington may have prepped better for his interview with her - knowing her slant - than she with him, but compared to twenty years ago Ms Gross was tremendously hosptiable to Mr Washington's clear and vital faith statements.

Posted by: Byron | January 9, 2008 1:35 PM