Hi, this is Hank Hennograph, President of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast with another Hank Unplug Short.

I'm sitting in my office, staring at my computer, reading an article sent to me by my son David

as a New York Times article, and the article deals with the organization of chaplains at

Harvard University, selecting Greg Epstein as its next president.

Epstein, according to the article, is the first choice of a committee made up of a Lutheran,

a Christian scientist, an evangelical, and a Baha'i.

Epstein is well known as the author of a book titled Good Without God. He is also famously said

that there's no life after death. He knows that with absolute certainty. And according to

Epstein, we don't look to a God for answers.

Instead, the students at Harvard can come to him for answers, for counsel, from his humanist, atheist perspective.

What an incredible eventuality for a universe to go through a progression so that after four centuries or so,

it now has transitioned from its namesake, John Harvard, a clergyman who believed in God and in Jesus Christ,

to the head of an organization of chaplains who was a humanist and an atheist.

Harvard had a poignant mission statement.

That mission statement, of course, has changed,

but it originally was committed to letting every student

be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well that the main end of his life and studies

is to know God and to know Jesus Christ, which is eternal life.

This, by the way, is precisely what St. John says. I think it's John 17,

chapter 3, John chapter 17, verse 3, I should say. At any rate, the mission statement goes on to say

that Christ is the only foundation for all sound knowledge and learning,

and how true that is.

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