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Evangelicals Supporting an Atheist Chaplain

By Chad Brand

Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 1636 by the Puritans who arrived on the shores of what would be Boston only six years earlier. Aboard the ship Arbella, en route to the New World, John Winthrop, who would serve as the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, proclaimed that these English settlers, fleeing persecution in England, would establish a “city on a hill.”

Harvard, the first college in the English colonies, had as its motto, “Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae,” “Truth for Christ and the Church.” On its shield one word is displayed, “Veritas.” Yet, Harvard has had a long history of conflict over what “truth” actually is. In 1805 Unitarian theologian Henry Ware was appointed the Hollis Professor of Divinity, or what we would now call systematic theology. The senior professor of theology thus denied the fundamental and historic doctrine of the Trinity. In the late 1800s, Harvard President Charles Eliot proclaimed that each person had the right and responsibility to determine truth for himself. Clearly, the cry, Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae, had been replaced by Truth for and by Man Alone.

Even that drift, however, would be nothing in comparison to what has happened at Harvard in just the last few weeks. The school, as one would expect from a formerly orthodox educational institution, has always had a chaplain. It currently has a group of chaplains or campus ministers, supporting a wide constituency of religious beliefs. These chaplains are represented by a “president,” a position elected by the other chaplains on the board. Last Spring the board elected an atheist, Greg Epstein, to that position, a role he has assumed here at the beginning of the academic year.

The vote was held by a group of thirty campus ministers. They included InterVarsity Christian Fellowship campus minister Pete Williamson who joined in the unanimous election of Greg Epstein. Williamson has written an article for Christianity Today in an effort to justify his decision, an article in which he extols the “new approach” which is “rising” among campus chaplaincies. This approach is one exemplified in this case by the election to the presidency of a “chaplain” who rejects not merely the biblical God, but any and all gods. Previous generations, which Williamson disdains as benighted in his article, would never countenance the notion of an “atheist chaplain.” They would, in fact, see the notions of “atheist” and “chaplain” as mutually exclusive, a contradiction of terms.

There is much that is disconcerting in Williamson’s apologetic for Epstein’s election. One of most pronounced is that here, a leader in the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, admits to electing a non-theist to this position. InterVarsity Fellowship is, after all, the campus ministry connected to InterVarsity Press, a publisher that made its early impact and established its bona fides by publishing the writings of Francis Schaeffer. Schaeffer, a theologian, prophet, and stalwart defended of orthodoxy warned us of such days as this. One can only imagine this lederhosen-wearing, goatee-sporting preacher venting his spleen on the organization whose publishing arm he virtually single-handedly put on the map.

It gets worse, though. On August 30 Evangelical pastor and author Tim Keller tweeted to the new chaplain, “Congratulations Greg on your appointment.” Keller is a giant figure and a loud voice in the Evangelical community. He has authored many books, including works on apologetics. He notes in another tweet the same day, “Greg is a friend whom I have debated and while I don’t agree with him on many things, I do wish him well.”

One is forced to ask the question, “OK, you think this is a nice guy, maybe even a great guy. He is a guy you trust to be around your kids and your dogs. But how does that equate to his appointment to the Harvard chaplain presidency?” I’d like a little more clarity here.

When it comes to Keller, I might ask him, had I the chance, “Why don’t you just keep your fingers off your keyboard on this issue? Do you feel you have to share your opinion about everything and about everyone you know?” Keller’s Evangelical veracity is already under attack from many quarters. There comes a time when silence is the better part of wisdom.

To Williamson, I might wonder aloud about why he felt the election of Epstein had to be a unanimous choice. After all, his organization has a heritage, and one that goes back before even Francis Schaeffer. But his vote is a slap in the face to that century-old organization. In my opinion, Williamson should have said, “No,” and Keller should have said nothing. Both men could have preserved their heritage and even the integrity of their faith.

The city on a hill long ago hid its light under a bowl. Do Evangelicals need to throw dirt on that bowl?

Trump launches new National Faith Advisory Board with Paula White at helm

Lamenting the current state of faith and religion in America as “not good,” former President Donald Trump launched a new National Faith Advisory Board last Thursday, with his spiritual advisor and televangelist Paula White at the helm.

“A lot of things have happened and a lot of things have happened with respect to faith and religion and they’re not good things. They are not good, they’re not good at all,” Trump said on a call with faith leaders during which he complained about how the 2020 election was stolen from him, accordingh to a clip published online. “It’s really a very sad event what took place on November 3rd, and what they did.”

“Everyone on this call made a critical contribution to our movement over the past five years. And we’ve had tremendous success and then we had a horrendous result to an election that was won. We won that election and now numbers are coming out that are shocking to people and it’s a shame,” Trump insisted.

Before the call last Thursday, the faith group co-founded by Jenny Korn and Amanda Robbins Vargo, who worked at the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House, sent an email to faith groups accusing the Biden administration of pursuing an “anti-faith agenda” the Jewish Daily Forward reported.

“We accomplished so much together at the White House during the Trump administration. We are seeing all our hard work being unraveled by the new administration and their anti-faith agenda,” the email said. “We will protect our religious freedoms here and abroad, in order to worship and live according to our faith.”

According to the Forward, the new advisory board is expected to “organize regular conference calls and events with prominent leaders in the coming months.” 

Religion News Service reported that White, who called on angels from Africa to help deliver victory to Trump in his reelection bid last November after overseeing the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, noted that the new National Faith Advisory Board would include “70 executives.” She also highlighted the “unprecedented victories, influence and access” to faith groups that resulted from Trump’s faith advisory board during his term.

Trump added that fighting for religious liberty was one of his “greatest honors.”

“One of my greatest honors was fighting for religious liberty and for defending the Judeo-Christian values and principles of our nation’s founding,” he said Thursday.

Still, the former president expressed surprise about his showing with Catholic and Jewish voters, arguing that both groups got much support from his administration.

“I’m a little bit surprised that we didn’t do better with the Catholic vote,” Trump said. “I think now they would give us a vote. I think we got about 50 percent of the vote. And yet, we did a lot for the Catholic vote. So we’ll have to talk to them. We’re going to have to meet with the Catholics.”

Pointing to his poor showing among Jewish voters, the former president argued that the faith community needs to be more united.

“Look what I did with the embassy in Jerusalem and what I did with so many other things … Israel has never had a better friend, and yet I got 25% of the vote,” Trump said. “I think they have to get together. There has to be a little bit more unity with the religious groups all represented on this call.”

When asked about his own faith in God, the former president noted: “It’s all based around God — it’s so important. God is so important to the success of what we’re doing. Because without God, we have nothing.”

‘America Is Trending Pro-Life’: Voters Support Texas Heartbeat Law, 46-43 percent, Poll Shows

A plurality of likely voters supports a new Texas that prohibits abortion once a heartbeat is detected, according to a new national survey.

The Rasmussen Reports poll found that 46 percent of U.S. likely voters support the law, while 43 percent oppose it and 11 percent are undecided.

The survey of 1,000 likely voters asked, “The Supreme Court has refused to block a new Texas law that effectively prohibits most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Do you support or oppose the Texas law?” It was conducted between Sept. 5-6.

The law, which went into effect on Sept. 1, requires abortion doctors to check for a fetal heartbeat and prohibits an abortion if one is detected. A heartbeat is typically detected around the sixth week of pregnancy.

Lila Rose, president of the pro-life group Live Action, touted the poll’s results.

“Despite the insane media bias & lies, more Americans support banning abortion after the baby’s heartbeat can be detected than support it,” Rose tweeted. “America is trending pro-life!”

The law is unique in that it allows citizens to sue those who violate it. The text of the law says “any person” other than “an officer or employee of a state or local governmental entity” may “bring a civil action against any person who … performs or induces an abortion in violation” of the law. It also allows lawsuits against anyone who “aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion.”

Those who sue and win could be awarded at least $10,000 for each illegal abortion.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block the law, although the majority also said abortion clinics had “raised serious questions regarding the constitutionality” of the law.

Abortion clinics, the court said, had not demonstrated that the high court could legally get involved.

“Federal courts enjoy the power to enjoin individuals tasked with enforcing laws, not the laws themselves,” the majority opinion said.

Abortion clinics say the law impacts about 85 percent of abortions in the state. 

A Planned Parenthood spokesperson on Tuesday said the organization will keep fighting the law in the courts.

“Texans are being denied their constitutional right to abortion after six weeks of pregnancy,” said Jacqueline Ayers of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Top Scientist Claims Anthony Fauci ‘Untruthful’ About Chinese Lab Research

The U.S. government contributed funding to controversial gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, a report alleged Monday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the chief medical advisor to Democrat President Joe Biden, has previously denied the National Institute of Health [NIH] has ever funded such research.

The Intercept reported 900 new pages of previously undisclosed information from the NIH, which The Intercept obtained through a a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, that the EcoHealth Alliance used federal grant money to fund dangerous bat coronavirus research in the Chinese labs. The Intercept reported:

The bat coronavirus grant provided the EcoHealth Alliance with a total of $3.1 million, including $599,000 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology used in part to identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans. Even before the pandemic, many scientists were concerned about the potential dangers associated with such experiments.

The grant proposal acknowledges some of those dangers: “Fieldwork involves the highest risk of exposure to SARS or other CoVs, while working in caves with high bat density overhead and the potential for fecal dust to be inhaled.”

Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, reviewed the material and told The Intercept the “viruses they constructed were tested for their ability to infect mice that were engineered to display human type receptors on their cell.”

Ebright concluded by accusing Fauci and NIH Director, Francis Collins, of being “untruthful” in their previous remarks on the matter.
“The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful,” he wrote.

As Breitbart News reported, Fauci has admitted some funds went to Wuhan but claimed they were never used for “gain of function” support.

As far back as May Fauci told the House Appropriations subcommittee the funds were given to the Chinese lab through the EcoHealth Alliance to underwrite “a modest collaboration with very respectable Chinese scientists who were world experts on coronavirus.”

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