Announcements

“What We Choose: Ethics for Unitarian Universalists” Class Starting 9 May 2020

Please join our ongoing series of classes — “What We Choose: Ethics for Unitarian Universalists” facilitated by Bennett Upton (All Souls Board President).

This class will happen at 12:00 Noon every Saturday beginning 9 May 2020.

Check Slack or email Bennett for the Zoom link information to join this class.

This course from UU authors Amber Beland and Manish Mishra-Marzetti offers an intentional process of engagement with others in examining ethical concepts, dilemmas, and questions to help us clarify and expand our ethical understanding.

Participants examine how they have arrived at ethical positions that they hold dear.

They explore new perspectives, identify areas for further questions and exploration, and perhaps more fully embrace ethical positions they reach through careful discernment.

This program will deepen and expand participants’ knowledge and skills for a process of ethical reflection that is central to living our Unitarian Universalist faith.

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Great Decisions Group Meeting Tonight (9 May 2020)

The Great Decisions Group is meeting online tonight (Saturday, 9 May 2020) at 6:00 PM.

Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.

If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.

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Zoom Lunch (13 May 2020)

Please join us next Wednesday (13 May 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.

This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.

At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.

Hope to see you there!

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Online All-Ages Worship (3 May 2020)

Please join us on Sunday (3 May 2020) at 11:00 AM for “In Between:  Liminal Time and Space — The Stress of Limbo and Thresholds” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

Continuing our season of focus on personal spiritual growth and development, we explore this time and space between and what it can mean to our spiritual lives — individually and collectively.

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

If you’re on Facebook, just enter All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church- Shreveport, Louisiana in the search bar and go to the All Souls Facebook page around 10:55 to join in.

Because the All Souls Facebook page is a public page, you should be able to see the worship service whether or not you have a Facebook account.

You do need a Facebook account to “like” and comment on the worship service.

While we are remaining physically distant, we want to know how you are doing and what you need.  You can let us know using these online surveys.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.

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Online Religious Education for Children and Youth (3 May 2020)

Please join us for our online religious education for children and youth this Sunday (3 May 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom about 5 minutes after our worship service is over.

The Zoom link  for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.

This Sunday — We’ll take some time to think about our fourth Principle (the free and responsible search for truth and meaning).

Perhaps your family has been taking this time to go through things in your house and think about what you still use and what is no longer useful and could be donated to someone else.

Sometimes it’s good to do that with our own beliefs and opinions as well … to examine carefully some of the things we’ve taken for granted and see if they still hold true for us.

We might find out in the process that things are not always what they seem!

We’ll also explore our first source (Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life).

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Online Adult Religious Education — 3 May 2020

Please join us on Sunday (3 May 2020) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will be starting Faith Forward:  Spiritual Practice with “Session 2 — Finding Your Spiritual Practice.”

As we enter our focus on personal spiritual growth and development, we’ll look at this program (developed by First Unitarian Church of Dallas, Texas) where members are asked to commit to a daily spiritual practice, monthly communal worship, an annual retreat, and at least one once-in-a-lifetime experience of pilgrimage (not necessarily a geographic pigrimage).

The second session will include an experience of meditation as well as a look at the difference between spiritual exploration and spiritual discipline (both of which are important to a spiritual life).

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New UU Class Continues 3 May 2020

The “New UU” adult religious education class will be resuming this Sunday (3 May 2020) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.

Bennett is once again offering this class for new and not-so-new members alike.

This week’s topic is “How We Grow in Faith — Philosophy of Religious Education.”

This is a great opportunity to learn more about the history, theology, and polity of Unitarian Universalism , as well as the history and unique character of our own congregation.

If you’re interested, email Bennett and he will send you a link to join the class.

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Great Decisions Group Meeting Tonight (2 May 2020)

The Great Decisions Group is meeting online tonight (Saturday, 2 May 2020) at 6:00 PM.

Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.

If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.

The program provides background information and policy options for the eight most critical issues facing America each year and serves as the focal text for discussion groups across the country.

Melodie Armstrong has started a group in our community through All Souls.

They have already started meeting but they welcome new participants to join them.

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Zoom Lunch (6 May 2020)

Please join us next Wednesday (6 May 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.

This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.

At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.

Hope to see you there!

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26 April 2020 Worship Livestreaming 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.

You can find the 26 April 2020 worship video here.

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