Career
He is currently director of planned giving for the Humanist Foundation, the endowment fund of the American Humanist Association, the latter an organization he earlier served as editor of its national magazine, the Humanist, from 1995 to 2006, as executive director from 1984 to 1999, and as national administrator from 1980 to 1984. He was also editor of the association"s membership newsletter Free Mind from 2002 to 2006 and editor of the Creation/Evolution journal from 1980 to 1991. Edwords was national director of the United Coalition of Reason from 2009 to 2015, president of Camp Quest, Incorporated., from 2002 to 2005, and on the staff of the Ohio camp from 1998 to 2008.
He has served on the boards of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (1986–1999), the New York Council for Evolution Education (1982–1994), and the National Center for Science Education (1982–1992).
He was chair of the American Humanist Association"s Humanist Manifesto III Drafting Committee from 2002 to 2003. On August 7, 1985, he became a co-plaintiff in the successful United States. District Court lawsuit, Asimov v.
United States, against the United States. Department of Education, brought by the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee re: magnet schools in the Mathematics/Science bill. He is widely published, frequently quoted in news stories, and has lectured throughout the United States and Canada as well as in India, Mexico, and Russia.
He has been married to Mary Carroll Murchison-Edwords since June 1980.
The couple have two children, both now adults.
