Fred Edwords
Fred Edwords served eleven years (1980-1991) as the founding editor of the AHA’s Creation/Evolution journal, refuting creationism, fifteen years as AHA executive director (1984-1999), and twelve years as editor of the Humanist magazine (1994-2006). He was the first corporate president (2002-2005) of Camp Quest, Inc., the summer camp for freethinking children. He went on to direct the AHA’s semi-autonomous United Coalition of Reason for six years (2009-2014), erecting attention-grabbing billboards across the country. And he served over three years (2015-2018) as director of planned giving for the AHA’s Humanist Foundation. Fred continues as an active humanist volunteer.
Posts by Fred Edwords
The Trailblazers of Humanism
I LIKE TO SAY, when I was at Camp Quest, one of the slogans that I invented was, “cleanliness is next to godliness.” And... Read More
EVERYDAY HUMANIST HERO | Art Jackson
TheHumanist.com’s series Everyday Humanist Heroes celebrates our movement’s group organizers, activists, support staff, and volunteers making a difference in their communities. Who do you want to celebrate?... Read More
Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism
BOOK BY WAYNE LAUFERT HUMANIST PRESS, 2022 In Kurt Vonnegut’s most famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, has become “unstuck in time,”... Read More
Popular Class in Humanism More Accessible Than Ever
Since 2009, people have ventured to rural Vermont and lodged in a rustic country inn to not only savor the stunning vistas of Mount... Read More
Live a Happier Life with a Free Mind
Today the issue of human wellbeing has become a major focus of social and political policymaking. This trend gained particular notice in 2012 when... Read More
Worth the Wait: Reason, Science, and Lasting Marriage
The US divorce rate has been falling for some time, and a recent data analysis by Philip Cohen, professor of sociology at the University... Read More
Faith and Faithlessness by Generation: The Decline and Rise are Real
WE'RE REACHING THE END of the alphabet—and the end of a religious statistical oddity in the United States. Generation Z, more so than the... Read More
