Please join us next Wednesday (18 June 2025) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Our weekly Zoom lunch is zoom-only this week.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
Announcements
No Kings Day in Shreveport (14 June 2025)
No Kings Day in Shreveport will happen on Saturday (14 June 2025) from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the Caddo Parish Courthouse.
Join All Souls friends and other Northwest Louisiana folks in this nationwide day of protest in defense of the Constitution and the rule of law and also against the cruel treatment of immigrants, the obscene Kim Jong Un-style parade, and the unlawful use of our troops against our own citizens.
Pride in Due Process Protest Festival (28 June 2025)
Join us in an intersectional celebration of PRIDE on Saturday (28 June 2025) from 12 noon to 5:00 PM at All Souls.
This event brought to you by and various collaborating groups including All Souls.
The afternoon will feature speakers, table displays, music, games, and more.
As the sign says — Rights for Y’all Means Rights for All!
Don’t let them take your joy! Come on out and connect with your community!
Meditation with Larry Androes (14 June 2025)
Please join us on Saturday (14 June 2025) 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.
8 June 2025 Worship Video
All Ages Worship (8 June 2025)
Please join us on Sunday (8 June 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Juneteenth” with Barbara Deger and friends.
Yes, we are a few weeks early — but to give Juneteenth and Father’s Day each their due — we decided to take this one first.
19 June 1865 was the day that news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally officially reached enslaved people in Texas although enslavers had known it much longer.
Why didn’t more of us learn this in school?
Join us to explore the history of the holiday, as well as current efforts in some cities to cancel the observance.
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.
State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page. The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link. The link is currently showing COVID, flu and RSV maintaining a very low level in our state as of 31 May 2025.
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.
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.
If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.
We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.
And of course — if you have symptoms (COVID or other respiratory illness) — please stay home and take care of yourself.
Our June 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is the OutNorthLA Film Festival.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (8 June 2025)
Please join us on Sunday (8 June 2025) 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.
Our topic will be Naomi Klein on the rise of end times fascism facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger
We will view and discuss an interview with award-winning journalist, author, and Professor of Climate Justice at British Columbia University.
She spoke with Democracy Now host Amy Goodman about the recent article she co-authored with Astra Taylor (“The Rise of End Times Fascism“).
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor say:
We are convinced that the more people understand the extent to which the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line.
Tie-Dye Sunday (8 June 2025)
Our traditional kickoff to the summer and one of our favorite summer fun activities for children and youth is happening on 8 June 2025 during the worship service.
Tie-Dye Sunday is back!
Parents — be sure that your kids are wearing clothes that won’t get hurt during the tie-dye activities — the dyes are permanent!
We will have oversized t-shirts children can wear as smocks if needed, but it’s better to send them in something that can stand a little extra color on this Sunday.
Also, we usually have plenty of dye and grownups attending the service are welcome to join us afterward to create their own wearable work of art.
Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (11 June 2025)
Please join us next Wednesday (11 June 2025) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Our weekly Zoom lunch is zoom-only this week.
If you do want to meet in person, send Susan a text message (318-465-3427) to let her know.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
Meditation with Larry Androes (7 June 2025)
Please join us on Saturday (7 June 2025) 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.