Kate Cohen: We of Little Faith

Kate Cohen, Washington Post columnist and author of "We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too)", sits down with Greg Epstein, MIT humanist chaplain and author of "Good Without God", to discuss the challenges of being an atheist in a country that presumes everyone is a believer — and the risks and rewards of swimming against the tide. Join the conversation!

Sponsored by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard and MIT.
The event will be photographed, recorded, and streamed.
Refreshments and social at 5:30pm. Discussion starts at 6pm, followed by audience Q&A and book signing.
Copies of "We of Little Faith" will be available for cashless purchase from the MIT Press Bookstore at the event.

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHB342_AI7g

More about the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard and MIT: https://www.humanistchaplaincy.org/

About the author:
Kate Cohen is a Washington Post contributing columnist and author of "We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (And Maybe You Should Too)" ( https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781567927368 ). "We of Little Faith" chronicles Kate's journey from Reform Jew to outspoken atheist, her decision to raise her children as atheists, and her efforts to recognize and replace the benefits religion can bring. It also argues that nonbelievers should be more vocal, both to enjoy more honest lives and to help save America. For this work and for her columns inspecting America's outsized deference to religion, the Freedom from Religion Foundation recently honored her with its "Freethought Heroine" award. 
Kate is the author of two previous books. "The Neppi Modona Diaries: Reading Jewish Survival through My Italian Family" ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Neppi-Modona-Diaries-Survival/dp/0874517834/ ) tells the story of a Jewish family who went into hiding to survive the Nazi invasion, and explores Kate’s own perspective as a post-Holocaust, non-believing Jew at the end of the twentieth century. "A Walk Down the Aisle: Notes on a Modern Wedding" ( http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Down-Aisle-Modern-Wedding/dp/0393324125/ ) examines through personal essays the functionally outdated but still hard-to-resist American wedding ritual. She and her husband live on a farm in Albany, New York.
Website with social media links: https://katecohen.net
Washington Post column: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/kate-cohen/

About the discussant:
Greg M. Epstein serves as the humanist chaplain at Harvard University and at MIT, and as Convener for Ethical Life at the MIT Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life. Greg has contributed, as speaker or organizer, to thousands of humanist and interfaith programs at Harvard and elsewhere. He recently served a term as president of the Harvard Chaplains, Harvard University’s corps of over forty chaplains.
Described as a “godfather to the [humanist] movement” by The New York Times Magazine, his NYT-bestselling book, “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe,” ( https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780061670121 ) 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 next book, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why it Desperately Needs a Reformation," ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/book-deals-october-2021-edition/ ) will be published Fall '24 by MIT Press, distributed by Penguin Random House. His writing has also appeared in The Boston Globe, MIT Technology Review, CNN.com, The Washington Post, and Religion News Service.