Harvard Appoints Atheist as Chief Chaplain
(HD) Forty-four-year-old Greg Epstein, author of “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe,” has served as Harvard’s humanist chaplain since 2005.
In a 2009 interview with the Harvard Gazette, Epstein recalled his time as a graduate student of Harvard Divinity School. He remembered reading about most of the world’s major religions but nothing on Humanism—or the belief that human needs and values are of prime importance. When he questioned a professor about the void of literature on Humanism, she encouraged him to write his own book about the topic.
“We don’t look to a god for answers,” Epstein told The New York Times. “We are each other’s answers.”
Story by Decision Magazine, posted on Harbinger's Daily . Cover photo by Pascal Bernadon, showing building on Harvard University campus.
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