MIT ditches graduation prayer and may soon gain a humanist chaplain Humanist Society Scotland • June 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 2014 commencement—happening this Friday, June 6—will not include an official prayer. In April 2014, Aaron Scheinberg—a doctoral student in planetary science at MIT and founder of the school’s Secular Society student group—wrote an opinion piece for MIT’s student newspaper about the long-running tradition of a prayer at graduation, kicking off a campus-wide discussion. Less than a month later, it was announced that the prayer would be replaced by an “inclusive, secular invocation,” reports Religion News Share on: FacebookTwitterLinkedInPinterestEmail ×
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