“You have no creed,” they said to me,
“How can you call yourself a church?”

Our creed has been expressed through ages
By poets, saints and common folks
Who saw themselves reflected in the world around them.
The gentle Francis of Assisi lived this creed and gave it voice.
Nothing was alien or apart from him.
The birds, the wind, the whole wide earth,
Every creature he embraced and called his brother.

About 40 years ago a friend who knew I attended a Unitarian church asked me what my religion was. My reply went something like this:
“Several hundred years ago Saint Francis of Assisi said that all creatures were his brother. Several hundred years later Charles Darwin said in effect that Saint Francis was quite literally right.” This is the foundation of my own religion. We UUs say “Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.” Somehow I feel Saint Francis said it better.