Harvard University’s new chief chaplain is … an atheist

Greg Epstein, unanimously elected by his fellow university chaplains, says: I want to be a positive force'

Harvard University, originally founded with a mission to educate clergymen in order to minister to New England's early Puritan colonists, has a new chief chaplain. His name is Greg Epstein - and he is an atheist.

Epstein, author of Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe, has been the university's humanist chaplain since 2005 before being unanimously elected by his fellow campus chaplains as the university chaplains organization's new president, the New York Times reported.