Who authored, “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe”?

Greg M. Epstein, who was born in 1977, wrote “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe”, which was published in 2010 and appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List.

As of the beginning of 2018, he was serving as the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University. He is also a Humanist Rabbi. He earned bachelor degrees in Chinese and Religion and a master’s degree in Judaic Studies from the University of Michigan, and a master’s degree in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.

Epstein speaks Mandarin, Hebrew, and Aramaic, and has studied Buddhism and Taoism. For a year, he sang professionally and recorded music. He has advised student groups at Harvard and served on the Advisory Board of the Secular Student Alliance from 2007 to 2010. Not anti-religious, he often works with the “religious left” in their struggles against the “fundamentalist religious right”.

In his introduction to “Good Without God”, Chaplain Epstein said, in part, “Tolerant, fair-minded people of all religions or none do not dwell on the question of whether we can be good without God. The answer is yes. Period.”