Online Adult Religious Education — 11 April 2021

Please join us on Sunday (11 April 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

We will concentrate on Chapter 2 (“Racism and White Supremacy”) paying particular attention to the questions for reflection on pages 34-36.

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Meditation with Larry Androes (10 April 2021)

Please join us on Saturday (10 April 2021) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

The group is free and open to all.

For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.

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No Online Religious Education for Children on 4 April 2021

There is no 1:00 PM Zoom classroom on Sunday, 4 April 2021.

Please encourage your children to join us for the 11:00 AM Easter service.  There may be a special guest at today’s worship service.

We do hope you’ll find something on your doorstep to help provide a little family fun as well.

We will return next Sunday (11 April 2021) at 1:00 PM to continue our theme of peace, social justice, and the interdependent web.

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Online Adult Religious Education — 4 April 2021

Please join us on Sunday (4 April 2021) at 9:30 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom (please note the time change for Easter Sunday only).

Due to Easter holiday distractions, our adult religious education class is meeting for check-in only.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo) next Sunday (11 April 2021) at our regularly scheduled 9:00 AM class time.

We will be discussing chapters two and three of this book.

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Meditation with Larry Androes (3 April 2021)

Please join us on Saturday (3 April 2021) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

The group is free and open to all.

For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.

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Online Religious Education for Children (28 March 2021)

Please join us online for our family religious education class on Sunday (28 March 2021) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.

The Zoom link will be available on the All Souls Slack and on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.

We will be reading the story Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris and Ana Ramirez Gonzalez — a true story about our nation’s Vice President and how she was working for big changes in her community even as a young child.

We will also play some games and have some fun.

Contact Susan Caldwell by email if you have any questions.

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Online Adult Religious Education — 28 March 2021

Please join us on Sunday (28 March 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

What Now?  Living the Eight Principle:  Beginning this Sunday — White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo)

In December 2020, we celebrated our congregational ratification of the Eighth Principle.

We also noted that the language of the Eighth Principle holds us to be accountable for the work of dismantling systemic racism and white supremacy culture.

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Meditation with Larry Androes (27 March 2021)

Please join us on Saturday (27 March 2021) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

The group is free and open to all.

For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.

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Online Religious Education for Children (21 March 2021)

Please join us online for our family religious education class on Sunday (21 March 2021) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.

The Zoom link will be available on the All Souls Slack and on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.

In our continuing theme of learning how to live into the Eighth Principle, we will read the book Not My Idea:  A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham.

That should give us plenty to talk about.

We will also take some time to reconnect and play some games.

Contact Susan Caldwell by email if you have any questions.

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Online Adult Religious Education — 21 March 2021

Please join us on Sunday (21 March 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

What Now? Living the 8th Principle: Revisiting Covenant with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger.

In December 2020, we celebrated our congregational ratification of the Eighth Principle.  We noted at the time that the language of this principle holds us accountable to the work of dismantling systemic racism and white supremacy culture.

This Sunday, we will take a look at our congregational covenant of right relations.

In many ways, it’s an excellent covenant created through a thoughtful and thorough process facilitated by thoughtful and thorough people.

We have no need to scrap it — but as always — we don’t know what we don’t know.

Our goal here is to look at our covenant through an anti-racist lens, and see where our language may have unintentionally upheld white supremacy culture.

This is how we “honor the intent, own the impact.”

Beginning on Sunday, 28 March 2021, we will begin a study of the book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.

Susan Caldwell will be ordering books for the class for all who request them and is happy to include you in the order whether you attend the class or do not attend (of course we’d love for you to attend the class).

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