Fred Howard

Born and raised in Macon, Georgia, Fred Howard is an ordained minister by the Christian Universalist Association and is currently the minister of the Unitarian Church of Valdosta, Georgia. He graduated in 2006 from Candler School of Theology at Emory in Atlanta and spent a year in the Clinical Pastoral Education program at Emory Hospital. Prior to that, he attended Valdosta State College and the Medical College of Georgia, and practiced medicine for twenty years.

Active in his church and community, Howard is married to Kathy Riggins Howard and lives in Valdosta. They have three grown children, Mandy, Misty, and Dustin, and seven grandchildren.

He is author of Transforming Faith: "Stories of Change by a Lifelong Spiritual Seeker," winner of numerous awards including the coveted Nautilus. He also recently published his first novel, "Children of Covenant," a suspenseful tale of prejudice, scandal, and political intrigue in a small town in the Deep South.