Won a special Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council in 2010 for his "dedication to religion coverage and efforts to bring faith news to public television
Won the Distinction in Ministry Award from the Yale Divinity School Alumni Association in 2003
Earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and studied Theology and Social Ethics at the Yale Divinity School in 1984
Has received honorary doctorates from Knox College, San Diego University, and Westminster College
Best known as a former NBC News correspondent and as the host of "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly․"
He created and developed "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" for PBS in 1997 and serves as the show's host and executive editor
As an NBC correspondent, he covered several prominent news events, including the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union
He co-edited a collection of excerpts from "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" interviewees called "The Life of Meaning" with William Bole in 2007