All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Shreveport, Louisiana
A home for Unitarian Universalism and liberal religion in Shreveport, Bossier City, and Northwest Louisiana since 1950
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
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.
The 41st annual Louisiana Holocaust remembrance service will happen on Sunday (5 May 2024) at 3:00 PM in the LSU Shreveport Campus in the University Ballroom (click here for a LSU-Shreveport campus map and look for the University Center Building).
The guest speaker for this service will be award-winning author and Holocaust survivor Sonia Levitin. The event chair is Dr. Kenna Franklin (LSU Shreveport Assistant Provost of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement).
For this Sunday (28 April 2024), both classes — grades pre-K through 5 and middle school / high school — will continue their focus on peace, social justice, and the interdependent web.
Both classes will further explore the proposed Unitarian Universalist values to come before the General Assembly this summer thanks to the wonder of JETPIG (justice, equity, transformation, pluralism, interdependence, and generosity).
Please join us on Sunday (28 April 2024) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.
Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.
For this Sunday, we are continuing our discussion from last week of “Banned in the USA” (Washington Post video interview with Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie).
Please join us next Wednesday (1 May 2024) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Our weekly Zoom lunch is returning to dual-platform access — join us from home using Zoom or in person in the social hall.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
All Souls will be at Pride in the Park on Saturday (27 April 2024) from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Columbia Park in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Here’s how you can help:
It should be a fun day for all ages — featuring arts and crafts for the kids, a great variety of food trucks, many different organizations supporting the LGBTQ community, and music from DJ J Mizzle.
Please join us!
Please join us on Saturday (27 April 2024) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.
This group will be meeting via Zoom and not in person.
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.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
