Don McEvoy

In the foreword McEvoy writes about the tradition of a presentation of a Credo many Sunday mornings by a member or friend of his church, The First Unitarian-Universalist of San Diego, California. Credo comes from the Latin and means I believe. The author did extensive research, as witnessed by the bibliography to assemble concise, meaningful statements of belief from thirty-seven well-known people who professed Unitarian or Universalist beliefs, beginning with Thomas Jefferson and ending with Norman Cousins. In between there were luminaries, such as Dorothea Dix, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Thomas Starr King, Louisa May Alcott, Clarence Darrow and Albert Schweitzer. The afterword where the author proclaims his own Credo, drawing from people such as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Martin Luther King, Jr., and even Woody Allen, is well worth reading.… (altro)