Harvard University has appointed a new chaplain who brings a fresh perspective to the role – as an atheist. Greg Epstein, 44, took over as president of the university chaplains this week after the ...

The motto of Harvard University, which might as well be tattooed on aspirants to the American upper class, is "veritas." For those who never learned the Latin that was once part of the standard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Greg Epstein, Harvard University’s new top chaplain (Arnfinn Pettersen (CC BY-SA 2.0)) Harvard University, which was founded with ...

The Harvard Catholic Center on Monday clarified reports of the university’s new atheist “chief chaplain,” saying the position is administrative and will not affect the center’s Catholic mission. Last ...

Bishop Robert Barron said on Tuesday that the Harvard University chaplains made a “complete and abject surrender” by electing an atheist as the president of their association. “What does bother me,” ...

Harvard does not have a University-ordained chaplain for Shia Muslim affiliates on campus, but some Shia students said it has not significantly impacted their experience at Harvard. Out of Harvard’s ...

“Chaplain,” per the Cambridge Dictionary, means "an official who is responsible for the religious needs of an organization." “Atheist,” per the Oxford Learner's Dictionary, means "a person who does ...

Many are deeply dismayed, as am I, by the recent reporting surrounding the role of the new facilitator of the Harvard University chaplains and the spin it has been given from both within and outside ...

Word has just come down the line that Harvard University has elected its first-ever atheist chaplain. Yes, you read that right: Greg Epstein, who identifies as a “humanist rabbi,” has been chosen as ...

“If a professed atheist counts as a chaplain — which is to say, a leader of religious services in a chapel — then ‘religion’ has quite obviously come to mean nothing at all,” Bishop Barron continued.