Chris Stedman

"Christopher Stedman is paving a powerful path for Humanism. A path that is unapologetic about its own principles yet signals respect and seeks partnership with people from a range of different beliefs and traditions." Eboo Patel 

"[It] may be heresy to say, but it's hard to find a smart, balanced atheist writer with something new to bring to the table." Jeff Sharlet, on Chris 

Chris Stedman is the Interfaith and Community Service Fellow for the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University, the Emeritus Managing Director of State of Formation at the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue, and the Founder of the first blog dedicated to exploring atheist-interfaith engagement, NonProphet Status. 

Chris writes for HuffPost Gay Voices and HuffPost Religion, and he is the youngest panelist for The Washington Post On Faith. His memoir, Faitheist, will be published by Beacon Press in 2012.

Previously a Content Developer and Adjunct Trainer for the Interfaith Youth Core, Chris is an atheist working to foster positive and productive dialogue between faith communities and the nonreligious. He speaks and leads workshops on this topic across the United States and around the world. 

Portland, Oregon’s GLBT newspaper Just Out called his work "brilliant" and labeled him an "emerging… vibrant and youthful queer voice for the secular humanist movement." For more on Chris, click here. For a video profile on his work, click here.