Greg M. Epstein

Humanist Chaplain of Harvard University

"On Faith" panelist Greg M. Epstein serves as the Humanist Chaplain of Harvard University, and sits on the executive committee of the 38-member interfaith corps of Harvard Chaplains. In 2005 Epstein received ordination as a Humanist Rabbi from the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, where he studied in Jerusalem and Michigan for five years. He holds a BA (Religion and Chinese) and an MA (Judaic Studies) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Masters of Theological Studies from the Harvard Divinity School. He is currently writing his first book, tentatively titled Good Without God, which will be about Humanism and will be published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in 2009. Epstein was the primary organizer of The New Humanism, an international conference in April 2007, in honor of the 30th Humanist Chaplaincy of Harvard University. His work has been featured by National Public Radio, BBC Radio, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The Jewish Daily Forward, and more. He is currently adviser to two student groups at Harvard College, the Secular Society and the Interfaith Council, and to the Harvard Humanist Graduate Community, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the national Secular Student Alliance. Before his graduate studies and work as a chaplain, Epstein worked as singer in a rock band, Sugar Pill, which recorded two albums. Close.