Fred Edwords
Fred Edwords, a former executive director of the American Humanist Association and former national director of the United Coalition of Reason, is editor of the Winter 2021 issue of the Humanist.
Posts by Fred Edwords
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
Unsanitized Buddhism and Humanitarian Crises
For decades many humanists have felt a special kinship with the religion of Buddhism. Humanist Paul Chiariello sums it up most emphatically on his... Read More
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
BOOK BY MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI BASIC BOOKS, 2017 262 PP.; $27.00 A glance at Amazon.com reveals no less than thirty-two books published in 2017 applying... Read More
Take a Selfie with the Bible at Washington’s Newest Attraction
It looms three blocks south of the National Mall in Washington, DC, and features 3,100 items displayed in 430,000 square feet of floor space,... Read More
Disaster Relief: Can Humanism Fill the Gap?
Humanists are good at handling abstract philosophical questions, such as responding to the “god of the gaps” argument (that wherever there’s a gap in... Read More