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Dec 14, 2024 | 
bigthink.com | Greg Epstein
A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people While I was studying toward ordination as secular humanist clergy two decades ago, I had the fortune of meeting the late rabbi Sherwin Wine, a brilliant philosopher whom TIME magazine profiled as “the atheist rabbi” in 1967. He became my favorite teacher and mentor as I trained to serve communities of atheists and agnostics in ways that parallel how religious leaders typically minister to their congregations.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
nautil.us | Greg Epstein
1 Tech Has Become the Most Dominant Faith of Our Time Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Though I am an atheist, I have built my life and career around religion.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thehumanist.com | Greg Epstein
Excerpted from Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation by Greg M. Epstein. Reprinted with permission from The MIT Press. Copyright 2024. One could write a book about what humanism even is, and indeed I already have.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
popsci.com | Greg Epstein
The history, present, and future of AI worship.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
time.com | Greg Epstein
IdeasBy Greg M. EpsteinNovember 14, 2024 12:03 PM ESTEpstein serves as the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT. His new book is Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why it Desperately Needs a ReformationAs a chaplain at Harvard and MIT, I have been particularly concerned when talking to young people, who hope to be the next generation of American leaders. What moral lessons should they draw from the 2024 election?
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Greg Epstein
Nabokov, ‘Lolita’ and the question of morally offensive artIf you’re looking for an escape from reality these days, I have some good news: John Banville has a new book out. The Drowning is one of Banville’s …
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
nextbigideaclub.com | Tim Robey |Andrew Leigh |Greg Epstein
Greg Epstein is the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University and at MIT, where he advises students, faculty, and staff members on ethical and existential concerns from a humanist perspective. He has served for over twenty years in elected and appointed interfaith leadership roles as an advisor for the non-religious. He himself is an atheist, agnostic, Humanist. Tech has changed roles. It used to be a mere tool that people could use for bettering and strengthening humanity.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thehumanist.com | Greg Epstein
Excerpted from Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation by Greg M. Epstein. Reprinted with permission from The MIT Press. Copyright 2024. One could write a book about what humanism even is, and indeed I already have.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Greg Epstein |Bill Maher |Alok Vaid-Menon
A wide-ranging, provocative, and energetic deep dive into the role that technology plays in our lives. We live in the church of the Wi-Fi connection, avows this interesting investigation. The ubiquity of the screen, the pervasiveness of the net, the omnipresent power of the tech corporations: these are the elements that drive our civilization, according to Harvard/MIT “humanist chaplain” Epstein. Technology has become a modern religion, reaching into every corner of our lives.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
thecorners.substack.com | Nadia Bolz-weber |Greg Epstein |Simran Singh
(I recorded myself reading this article to you! - Click above)Disclaimer: I’m way out of my league talking about this stuff, and I apologize for the following thoughts not being particularly comforting, but here’s what has been in my head the last few days since attending the Aspen Ideas Festival and I need to just get it out so I can move on and think about something else.
