Fred Edwords
Fred Edwords is a former executive director of the American Humanist Association, former president of Camp Quest, former national director of the United Coalition of Reason, and immediate past editor of the Humanist. He is currently director of planned giving for the Humanist Foundation.
Posts by Fred Edwords
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
How Clarence Darrow Came Again to Dayton
Christian conservatives, despite their threats of protest, vandalism, and even violence, turned out to be a no-show. The hour-long ceremony the morning of July... Read More
Why Religious Education Is Needed in Public Schools
On June 12 the National Council for the Social Studies became the first national education organization in the United States to put into its... Read More
The Greening of Bill Gates
While some form of nontheism is a necessary condition of humanism, it isn’t sufficient. And for a long time Bill Gates’s putative nontheistic personal... Read More