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‘We Can Do Better’: Harvard Chaplains Raise Concerns about Equity and Interfaith Spaces | News | The Harvard Crimson

(Article is by guest writer Ed Kelly Jr. See bio below.) For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven, Wherefore thou be wise, Cleave ever

John Hamill was discriminated against after he applied to be a chaplain with the Defence Forces and is asking the Táinaiste for an apology.

A while ago I was at a Bookstore in Des Moines and did a public book reading and signing of my recently published book, “Confessions of a Recovering

Although Harvard University was established in 1636 to train men to be literate and well-educated Protestant clergymen, the new chief chaplain at the school is Greg Epstein, a dedicated atheist.

Simran Jeet Singh Chris Stedman is a friend. He’s an activist, a community organizer, and a writer. He’s the author of IRL – which is short for in real life – Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives. He’s also the author of Faitheist, which is the first book of his that I read. Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious. He’s written for multiple outlets, including The Guardian, the Atlantic, Pitchfork, Buzzfeed, et cetera. And he is forme...

>> my grandparents are holocaust survivors. god did not come into our home. >> stephanie pozel not only vanessas professor, an ordained christian minister. >> religious experts said to me atheism is dangerous. >> i think its dangerous to fundamentally misunderstand religion. i think thats very dangerous. i feel like god makes a claim on my life that makes me want to sacrifice for the good of others. that makes me not want to put myself always first. but vanessa wants all those things too. >> doe...

>> greg ebbstein is certainly good without god. he wrote the best selling book and has been harvards humanist chaplain for a decade. so what is humanism? >> its being a good human being and working at being a good human being without a concept that we have any sort of supernatural powers to guide us or tell us what to do. >> humanists, atheists, skeptics, free thinker. isnt that all the same thing? >> its all one community. >> a community that gathers here at harvards humanist hub. a secular com...

Believers are morons or something like that. now, thats not in t spirit of anything. if they want to put up a sign saying, just what you said, if you dont believe in christmas, youre not alone, contact ziggy and heres his phone number. thats fine. i dont bother that. the second thing is macys -- >> yeah, i mean -- >> macys brought in santa claus, st. nicholas, okay? but refused to say what holiday st. nicholas was being brought in for. i just thought that was absurd and i mocked them, all right?...