Making Humanism Relevant

I have been able to schedule Fred Edwords of the American Humanist Association to present on Friday, April 15, 7:00-9:00 PM, at Charlotte Friends Meeting (Quakers) on 570 W. Rocky River Rd., near the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This is a wonderful facility nestled in a forest with panoramic walls of glass. It is however, not free. We will be charged $60 for this rental and we will need to cover this cost at the meeting.

Presentation:

Making Humanism Relevant

Humanists have gotten good at critiquing traditional religion. But we didn’t become humanists merely to make such debunking our focus. Humanism offers a larger view that takes us in positive new directions, and many of those directions include vigorous activism toward social change. There is, in fact, a long history of humanist and freethought social action to inspire us.

Putting our values to work is thus a central part of our tradition. Though we’ve sometimes had to do this by going against the grain of popular religion, at other times we’ve been able to leverage our influence through common cause with religious allies.

Biography:

Fred Edwords has a long history in organized humanism. For 15 years he was executive director of the American Humanist Association, for 12 years editor of the Humanist magazine, and for six years national director of the United Coalition of Reason. He is past president of Camp Quest, a summer camp for freethinking children, and has served on the board of the International Humanist and Ethical Union and the founding board of the National Center for Science Education. As a continuing voice for humanist ideas, he has, over the past fortyyears, appeared on national and local radio and television in the United States and Canada, been interviewed on radio and for newspapers around the world, and has lectured in North America, Europe, and India.

Today he is director of planned giving for the Humanist Foundation of the American Humanist Association and would be pleased to help you provide a future for your humanist values in your will or other estate plan. He also serves on the adjunct faculty of the Humanist Institute, is the American Humanist Association’s historian, and sits on the Broader Social Impacts Committee of the Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC.

Director of Planned Giving

Humanist Foundation

American Humanist Association

202-550-9964

Fredwords@AmericanHumanist.org

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