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Thom Nickels: Harvard’s atheist chaplain Thom Nickels October 31, 2025 October 30, 2025

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The current chief chaplain at Harvard University is an atheist who’s never seen the inside of a foxhole.

Greg Epstein, 47, author of “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe,” a 2010 New York Times bestseller, has been the humanist chaplain at Harvard since 2005. Epstein, who describes himself as a humanist/atheist, was elected President of the University Chaplains’ Organization by more than 30 of his fellow chaplains. His election was met by cheers from woke religious communities, especially “reconfigured” Protestant Christian denominations that

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