plate - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 27 Jun 2013 05:00:32 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg plate - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Atheist church has homilies and passes the plate https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/06/28/atheist-church-has-homilies-and-passes-the-plate/ Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:02:46 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=46211 It's Sunday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a rapt congregation listens to a chaplain preach about the importance of building a community. Outsiders could be forgiven for believing this service, with its homilies, its passing of the plate, its uplifting songs, belongs in a church. If so, it's an atheist church without God — the brainchild Read more

Atheist church has homilies and passes the plate... Read more]]> It's Sunday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a rapt congregation listens to a chaplain preach about the importance of building a community.

Outsiders could be forgiven for believing this service, with its homilies, its passing of the plate, its uplifting songs, belongs in a church.

If so, it's an atheist church without God — the brainchild of Harvard University's Humanist chaplain.

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