Harvard’s New Chief Chaplain Is an Atheist
You just cannot make this stuff up! What a world we live in. (KSchaal)
In best-selling book Good Without God, Greg Epstein argues that belief in a higher being is not a mandatory requirement for leading a good, moral life. It’s also not a requirement for becoming chief chaplain at Harvard. Epstein, the university’s humanist chaplain since 2005, has been unanimously elected to lead more than 40 chaplains serving Harvard’s religious communities, the New York Times reports. The committee that elected him included a “Lutheran, a Christian Scientist, an evangelical Christian and a Baha’i,” says the Rev. Kathleen Reed, the Lutheran chaplain. A 2019 poll of freshmen found that almost 40% identified as atheist or agnostic, and Epstein said that group still has “a real need for conversation and support around what it means to be a good human and live an ethical life.”
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