Talk about weird ….
Harvard University was begun specifically as an institution of higher learning to train Christian ministers. Of course, over the years it has moved very far away from that goal. It is now a very diverse institution that is focused on many other things.
Still, it does have a connection to spiritual things. Did you know that it has over 40 university chaplains who minister to a wide variety of religious communities including Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and many other religious communities? In fact, the chaplains group is large enough that it has its own organization – and recently, they unanimously elected Greg Epstein as their president.
Strange thing about Epstein, though, while he was raised Jewish, he doesn’t identify with his Jewish roots. Rather he considers himself a humanist. (Continue reading here.)