Fred Edwords
Fred Edwords, a former editor of the Humanist and former executive director of the American Humanist Association, now volunteers in his retirement as the AHA’s historian.
Posts by Fred Edwords
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
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