Please join us this Sunday (28 April 2024) at 11:00 AM for “Freed Between the Lines: The Struggle to Save Books, History, and Libraries for All of Us” with Barbara Deger, Susan Caldwell, John Tuggle, and a special guest speaker.
We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service. Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106 if you are able to do so.
Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.
As school districts across our nation pass book bans and legislatures pass increasingly draconian censorship laws, we take a look at the importance of books that have shaped our own lives and the horrors that arise from depriving our society of a diversity of ideas.
We will follow the service with an opportunity to write letters to our legislators opposing some particularly egregious library bills coming up in the Louisiana Legislature this week.
The COVID risks for Caddo, Bossier and De Soto Parishes (the Shreveport metro area) are all low — the CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in “low” risk areas.
See the CDC website and the COVIDActNow website for more details.
Starting on 13 November 2022, masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.
Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.
We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.
We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms, and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.
Please use this link to evaluate the current COVID risk for the Shreveport-Bossier City metro area as you make your decisions regarding masking and other COVID preventive measures while attending All Souls.
We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.
However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.
Please use good judgment and stay home if you have any symptoms. Even those who have tested negative for COVID can later test positive.
Our April 2024 give-away-the-plate recipient is Chimp Haven.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
