Friday 27 August 2021

The New Chief Chaplain at Harvard? An Atheist.

The New Chief Chaplain at Harvard? An Atheist.

The Puritan colonists who settled in New England in the 1630s had a nagging concern about the churches they were building: How would they ensure that the clergymen would be literate? Their answer was Harvard University, a school that was established to educate the ministry and adopted the motto “Truth for Christ and the Church.” It was named after a pastor, John Harvard, and it would be more than 70 years before the school had a president who was not a clergyman.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/us/harvard-chaplain-greg-epstein.html?source=Snapzu

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