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
Please join us this Sunday (25 October 2015) at 11:00 AM for our worship service. Rev. Barbara Jarrell will be in the pulpit and we are delighted to have special musical guests Twang Darkly.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
Please joins for our Stewardship Kickoff Breakfast this Sunday (25 October 2015) at 10:00 AM in the Social Hall at the church.
We’re getting closer to the season of giving as we kick off our 2016 Stewardship Campaign.
It’s time to think about what All Souls means to you and what you are able to give back in terms of time, talent, and treasure.
Members have found that when they give in all three ways — to the extent that they are able — they gain a greater sense of ownership in the church.
As Barbara reminds us each Sunday, this church is sustained in every way by its members — and that includes everything from singing in the choir to working on the Building and Grounds to paying the light bill.
Join us as we dream together and share a delicious breakfast.
If you have a particularly wonderful breakfast item you’d like to bring, or if you’d like to help in some other way, please contact Amanda Lawrence via email or via phone (318-402-3314).
The 9:15 AM Sunday Adult Religious Education Class will take a break this week (Sunday, 25 October 2015)
The class will resume at 9:15 AM on Sunday, 1 November 2015, when we will be discussing Chapter 2 (“TheLockdown”) of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.
Please join us on Sunday (18 October 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Each on
Our Path, All Walking Together.”
Join the children, youth and adults of All Souls for a celebration of our fourth Unitarian Universalist Principle — a free and responsible search for truth and meaning.
That search is something different for each one of us. We grow in spirit and as a community when we take time to see things from another’s point of view.
Our adult religious education class will meet on Sunday (18 October 2015) at 9:15 AM with a book study / discussion group — The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-Blindness by Michelle Alexander.
A brutal tangle of draconian sentencing laws, selective prosecutions, unbalanced jury selection, and a prison-for-profit system fueled by a drug war resulting in far more casualties than victories has resulted in what Michelle Alexander calls ” … a stunningly comprehensive and well-disguised system of racialized social control that functions in a manner strikingly similar to [the pre-Civil Rights-era system of segregation known as] Jim Crow.”
This Week’s Class — “The Rebirth of Caste” — We explore the history of “how we got here,” starting with the beginning of slavery, moving through Reconstruction and its backlash, into Jim Crow, the Civil Rights era and its backlash, up to the present trend of mass incarceration.
For more information, please read this introduction to this book discussion group.
Please join us for “A Taste of Interfaith” — A fundraiser for Northern and Central Louisiana Interfaith — on Sunday (18 October 2015) from 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM.
This year’s host for this event is Church for the Highlands / Highland Center Ministries (520 Olive Street, Shreveport LA)
Tickets are $25.00 per person / $200.00 per table of eight.
For October 2015 only, our monthly building and grounds work day has been moved to the third Saturday of the month (17 October 2015).
The work day tasks will run from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
We want to spiff up the place in preparation for the memorial service for Carol Graywing’s mother Colleen Talbot (Saturday, 17 October 2015, starting at 3:30 PM).
Our adult religious education classes resume on Sunday (11 October 2015) at 9:15 AM with a book study / discussion group — The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-Blindness by Michelle Alexander.
A brutal tangle of draconian sentencing laws, selective prosecutions, unbalanced jury selection, and a prison-for-profit system fueled by a drug war resulting in far more casualties than victories has resulted in what Michelle Alexander calls ” … a stunningly comprehensive and well-disguised system of racialized social control that functions in a manner strikingly similar to [the pre-Civil Rights-era system of segregation known as] Jim Crow.”
This book was the 2012-2013 UUA Common Read. The tide may finally be turning on this issue — the Caddo Parish District Attorney and Sheriff elections this fall are particularly focused on many related issues covered in this book. Continue reading “Adult Religious Education Resumes 11 October 2015”
We are moving our regular Building and Grounds Day to Saturday (17 October 2015) to accommodate today’s wedding.
However, if you yearn to do some Grounds work today (Saturday, 10 October 2015) … Bayla Lanham, his Dad, and some of the other Boy Scouts will be out working on the nature trail this morning starting around 9:00 AM.
Today’s work will be outside only (to be respectful of the wedding party preparations).
