Ed Buckner
American Atheists — Atlanta, GA
Ed Buckner, is the son of a low-church Episcopal clergyman, born in Fitzgerald, Georgia. He received his B.A. from Rice University in 1967 and his M. Ed. and Ph.D. from Georgia State University.
He has edited Freethought Press books by Massimo Pigliucci, Keith Parsons, Carol Faulkenberry, and Edwin Kagin. With his wife Diane, he co-edited Freethinker and retired FBI agent Oliver G. Halle's Taking the Harder Right. With his son, Michael Edward Buckner, he co-edited Quotations That Support the Separation of Church and State (1995). Also, he wrote the concluding chapter of Kimberly Blaker's Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America (2003).
In addition to writing, Buckner has debated and spoken around the United States about freethought and secular humanism, often about the Treaty of Tripoli.
Buckner and his son, Michael, are at work now on a book tentatively titled In Freedom We Trust: The U.S. is a Free Country, not a Christian Nation.
Ed can be reached via e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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