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 on Sunday (2 April 2017) at 11:00 AM for “Open to Transformation” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
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 (2 April 2017) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class. We will continue our discussion of the book Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict by Donna Hicks, PhD.
Our reading for this week continues to unpack each of the “ten temptations” that can cause us to violate the dignity of others as well as our own.
In class, we will continue reviewing the ten essential elements of dignity and begin our discussion of the ten temptations.
In her work with businesses, schools, organizations, and governments, Donna Hicks has come to draw a distinction between “respect” and “dignity.”
We often see respect as something that must be earned, or can be lost.
We do not have to respect bad behavior, but we do need to grant each person basic dignity, just as we are entitled to claim that for ourselves.
This is an important book for these contentious times, and we hope to make it a congregational, and even a community read.
We currently have no books in stock, but can always order more.
This book is also available for order in print and electronic format.
Please join us on Tuesday (4 April 2017) at 7:30 PM for Roy Zimmerman’s return to All Souls.
Continue reading “Roy Zimmerman Returns to All Souls (4 April 2017)”
Our email for church office and staff members was out of commission for several hours on 30-31 March 2017 (power outage with our web hosting / email provider).
Our web hosting / email provider now reports that all services are restored.
Our email for church office and staff members is currently down (power outage with our web hosting / email provider).
They are working this problem and our email should be restored soon.
Please call the church office (318-868-3313) if you need to reach the church staff.
Please join us on Sunday (26 March 2017) at 11:00 AM for “Nowhere Else to Stand” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Barbara writes:
All the familiar ground we know seems to be either moving or collapsing and there’s only one safe place left to stand and that’s in integrity with love.
The All Souls Choir will sing.
This is the last Sunday of the month and our monthly “Give Away the Plate” offering will go to The Innocence Project (an organization working for the exoneration of the wrongly convicted, and a reduction in the incarceration rate nationwide).
Join us after the service for our Grounds Master Plan Kickoff Meeting –a light lunch will be served.
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.
Immediately following our 11:00 AM Sunday (26 March 2017) worship service, we will have our Grounds Master Plan Kickoff Meeting.
We will have a plant giveaway at the same time. A light lunch will be served.
We want as much input from you as possible before the meeting. Please call or email Cindy Mandarino with your comments, concerns, and suggestions:
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Please join us on Sunday (26 March 2017) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class. We will continue our discussion of the book Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict by Donna Hicks, PhD.
For this week we are covering chapters 19 through 22.
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Please join us on Sunday (19 March 2017) at 11:00 AM for our presentation of the 2017 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award to Lois Scheib.
All Souls presents its yearly Ralph Waldo Emerson Award to an individual or organization from the wider community who best embodies the values and Principles of liberal religion.
This year, we have chosen Lois Scheib.
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For those of you who would like to see the conclusion of the video from last week (Facing the Truth Part 2), Phil Boswell will be showing it at 8:30 AM on Sunday (19 March 2017). in the social hall.
If you prefer to watch it for yourself at home:
The adult religious education class will begin at the regular time after this video screening at 9:15 AM.
Our adult class has been reading Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict by Donna Hicks.
This BBC documentary series (Facing the Truth: Northern Ireland) features face-to-face conversations between families of victims and the perpetrators of violence during the years of “The Troubles.”
The conversations are facilitated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu along with Donna Hicks and Leslie Galinda.