Bob Abernethy

Bob Abernethy is Executive Editor and Host of the PBS television program Religion&Ethics NewsWeekly, which he developed and which this year began its 15th season on the air.  The much-honored half-hour news magazine covers all major religions and denominations and all major expressions of spirituality in American life.

Abernethy is also the co-editor, with William Bole, of The Life of Meaning,  published in 2007, which is composed of excerpts from many of the insightful and eloquent observations about religious belief and practice made by men and women profiled on the program.

For four decades prior to starting Religion&Ethics NewsWeekly, Abernethy was a correspondent for NBC News in Washington, London, Los Angeles and, most recently, Moscow, where he covered the collapse of Communism and the end of the Cold War.

He is an alumnus of Princeton University, where he studied at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.  He also took a one-year leave from NBC to attend the Yale Divinity School.
His late grandfather, William S. Abernethy, was for many years the pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, DC.

Abernethy is married to the former Marie Cheremeteff Grove and has two daughters, one step-daughter and three step-sons.  He lives in Washington and Jaffrey, NH.