This orientation will happen on Monday (26 November 2018) from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM at All Souls
If you are a parent or adult caregiver / guardian of a high school-age youth in grades 10-12 (ages 15-18), we invite you to come and learn from our trained facilitators about the OWL program.
We we will be offering to youth from All Souls and the wider community after the first of the year.
Please join us on Sunday (11 November 2018) at 11:00 AM for “Tribute, Solace, Challenge: Some Thoughts on Veteran’s Day” with Steve Caldwell, Jennifer Russell, and Susan Caldwell.
Capt. Cassandra Bates, USAF — first woman serving in the 435th Contingency Response Group Airborne Team
On this Sunday morning at 11:00 AM in every time zone, bells of peace will ring from churches, universities, cemeteries, ships at sea, and war memorials around the world in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the Great War (ostensibly the “war to end all wars” which sadly would later come to be called “World War I”).
On this day, we will pay tribute to those who serve and have served, exploring what “tribute” may and may not mean.
We’ll also take some time to lift up the values on which our nation was ostensibly founded and how we grow a nation that ultimately upholds those values for all — bending the arc always toward justice even when it’s heartbreaking, even when it’s easy to believe we are moving backward.
A newcomer’s class will follow the service — child care provided.
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 join us on Sunday (11 November 2018) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class — “From Jesus to Nicea: A Flash History of the Early, Early Christian Church.”
Archeological find in a Turkish lake may be the church that hosted the Council of Nicea.
Although the Unitarianism and Universalism that form the two streams of our faith largely evolved on this continent, we do look back to the theologians considered heretics of the early Church as the earliest forerunners of our faith.
The journey to what came to be orthodox Christianity was a long one — full of many often cacophonous voices.
Please join us on Sunday (4 November 2018) at 11:00 AM for “Loving the Hell Out of the World: The Universalist Belief of Hosea Ballou” by Rev. Jacqueline Anne Luck.
Please be here to welcome our guest minister – Rev. Jacqueline Anne Luck.
Many of you may remember her as a member here years ago.
Rev. Jacqueline left Shreveport to attend Starr King School of the Ministry followed by serving three churches in Jackson MS, Laurel MS, and Gray TN before retiring to New Orleans LA.
As we focus this season on our Jewish and Christian heritage, it’s appropriate that we look to the Christian roots of our Universalist history.
Music will be provided by our guest pianist, Ms. Gulya Chandler.
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.
Our “Give Away the Plate” recipient for November 2018 is The Philadelphia Center. From their website:
The Philadelphia Center developed in the spring of 1990 as concerned citizens responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic as it spread into the Shreveport area of Louisiana. Over the past 20 years, The Philadelphia Center has expanded to become the only HIV/AIDS resource center in Region VII. The Philadelphia Center serves the parishes of Caddo, Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, Bienville, Red River, DeSoto, Sabine, and Natchitoches.
For the month of November 2018, All Souls will donate half of all our non-pledge income to the Philadelphia Center for a sponsorship of their 2019 Resolution Run in January.
Please join us on Sunday (28 October 2018) at 11:00 AM for “Dia de los Muertos” with Lee Spruell, Virginia Villarreal, and Susan Caldwell
The Day of the Dead is a Mexican celebration honoring those who have gone before.
At this turning of the year when many traditions follow the cycles of the earth and turn their thoughts to those who have departed this life, we will learn from Lee Spruell and Virginia Villarreal about this unique tradition celebrated in Mexico and among Mexican communities around the world.
If you want to do so, please bring a photograph or possession of a departed loved one.
A Mexican-themed potluck will follow the service. If you can make authentic Mexican dishes, that is wonderful and please do. If your talents run more toward Tex-Mex, that is fine also. If you’d rather make or pick up something all together different, no one will complain and that’s OK too.
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.
NOW (National Organization for Women) Shreveport – Bossier and All Souls in partnership are offering a parent / caregiver orientation for the Our Whole Lives (OWL) comprehensive sexuality education curriculum for grades 10-12.
