Caption: Unitarian Universalist Minister Rev. George David Exoo (February 1991).

The Reverend George David Exoo -- also known as Pittsburgh's Church Man -- free lances as the planet's only paid church critic. His reviews on air over "all classical" WQED-FM secured contracts with city magazines in Dallas, Phoenix, and Milwaukee, along with appearances on ABC's Good Morning America. Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Roman Catholics have hired him as a consultant on congregational growth.

Harvard and Berkeley trained, Exoo was ordained into the Unitarian-Universalist ministry at the First and Second Church in Boston in 1973. He gathered Unitarian-Universalist congregations in Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head Island, S during his thirteen year residency in Charleston. Now he has been called as one of the ministers to the interfaith-friendly Unitarian-Universalist congregation of Beckley, WV. There he hopes to link the Judeo-Christian faith communities with emergent Hindu and Islamic communities.

Exoo also serves as chaplain of Hemlock of Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia and its more aggressive offspring, the Compassionate Chaplaincy through which he and former Hemlock president, Josephine Koss, guide suicides for the terminally and hopelessly ill nationwide. Always interfaith friendly, when Exoo arrived in Charleston, SC as minister at the Unitarian Church, he, along with Jewish animal activists, mounted a campaign that forced the local humane society to adopt humane methods of euthanizing animals. As the AIDS epidemic began to gel, he became a pioneer in ministering to AIDS patients, then campaigned successfully to secure passage of living will legislation in South Carolina.