Glenn Beck In Metamorphosis

Bill Maher, interviewed by Fareed Zakaria, of all people, mentioned that Glenn Beck was 'seging' (segwaying) from 'political preacher' to 'religious preacher', because it's an easier audience.

Anyone who has watched Beck recently knows that, indeed, Beck is changing rather drastically.  His overt political comments are becoming fewer and fewer, while he has focused on religion, theology, and moral improvement much more.

In a show last week which I happened to watch, he spent virtually the entire hour interviewing a biographer of the German theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  It could have been a class at Duke Divinity School, I kid you not!  I even learned something...that Bonhoeffer was, while spending a year in New York City early in his professional life, tremendously affected by his attendance at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.  The lively and profoundly Christ-centered worship at Abyssinian moved him so much that he decided to try and take back to Germany some of that inspiring Black Church worship.

All of that to say, Glenn Beck has changed so much from what he was doing a few years ago, that he needs to be reconsidered and possibly taken off the list of 'crazy Fox anchors.'  I actually think that what he's doing now is making a distinct and certainly unique contribution to media and our society.