A Brief Review of Kelly Monroe’s Finding God at Harvard

While serving as a chaplain with Harvard Graduate School Christian Fellowship in 1992, Kelly Monroe Kullberg founded the Veritas Forum, serving as its executive director till she left the position in 2003. Veritas Forum’s mission is to help students answer hard questions in relation to Jesus and the biblical worldview. A few years after founding the organization, Kelly Monroe Kullberg published the book Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Christians Thinkers. The book went on to win the Christians Booksellers Association “Book of the Year” award.

In the book, Kelly Monroe Kullberg helped 40 writers articulate their life stories and how the search for the truth led to Jesus Christ, for whom Harvard College was founded. She also narrates her quest for Jesus and how it took her beyond Harvard to other universities around the country. She tells the story of how, despite her skepticism, she found a community of vibrant and interdisciplinary faculty members, former students, and orators whose testimonies negated the myth that the Christian faith cannot survive or thrive in a highly intellectual environment like Harvard.

Finding God at Harvard emphasizes how many campuses around the country are rife with emptiness. According to the author, this emptiness stems from the absence of truth. Yet the truth is available to anyone with the will to pursue it.