Harvard Chooses Atheist Who Teaches About Progressive Movement as Head ‘Chaplain’

Dr. Susan Berry 27 Aug 2021 

Harvard University’s more than 40 chaplains have unanimously elected an atheist to be the new president of its chaplains’ organization. Greg Epstein, 44, a humanist who was raised in a Jewish household, will begin as president of the Harvard chaplains this week.

“There is a rising group of people who no longer identify with any religious tradition but still experience a real need for conversation and support around what it means to be a good human and live an ethical life,” Epstein, the author of Good Without God, told the New York Times.

“We don’t look to a god for answers,” he said. “We are each other’s answers.”

Epstein, who also serves as humanist chaplain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has served as Harvard’s humanist chaplain since 2005 and, according to the Times, has been “teaching students about the progressive movement that centers people’s relationships with one another instead of with God.”............To Read More....

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