Greg M. Epstein serves as the humanist chaplain at Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and as Convener for Ethical Life at the MIT Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life. For nearly two decades, he has built a unique career as one of the world’s most prominent humanist chaplains — professionally trained members of the clergy who support the ethical and communal lives of nonreligious people.

Greg’s New York Times bestselling book, “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe,” remains influential years after its initial publication helped popularize the notion that the rapidly growing population of secular people can live lives of deep purpose, compassion, and connection. Greg’s 2018 move to join MIT alongside his work at Harvard, inspired an 18-month residency at leading Silicon Valley publication TechCrunch, exploring the ethics of technologies and companies shifting our definition of what it means to be human, often in troubling ways. His new book, “Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why it Desperately Needs a Reformation,” will be published in October of this year by MIT Press, distributed by Penguin Random House.

Described as a “godfather to the [humanist] movement” by The New York Times Magazine, Epstein was also named “one of the top faith and moral leaders in the United States” by Faithful Internet, a project coordinated by the United Church of Christ with assistance from the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, for his efforts to bring together atheists, agnostics, and allies, as part of an ancient and ever-evolving ethical tradition that can be called humanism. His writing has also appeared in The Boston Globe, MIT Technology Review, CNN.com, The Washington Post, and Religion News Service.