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
Every Thursday in October 2020 at 5:00 PM, we’re continuing to offer a citizen education campaign launched on 5 October 2020.
If you missed the 5 October 2020 online event, you can still see an encore presentation Thursday in October 2020 at 5:00 PM.
You will also learn how to talk to your family and friends about this very damaging amendment.
You can register here and choose the date(s) you want to attend. Continue reading “Fight 5 at 5 — Citizen Education Campaign on Amendment 5”
The “New UU” class will continue this Sunday (11 October 2020) with facilitator Bennett Upton at 1:00 PM via Zoom.
Bennett has started a new session of this course that offers insight into Unitarian Universalist history, theology, and practice as well as a deeper dive into our own congregation.
This is a great way to learn more about our faith and our church and to spend some time with other members in a small group setting.
It’s not just for newcomers and not just for those who’ve never taken it before — a refresher is always good.
Please join us on Saturday (10 October 2020) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.
This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.
The group is free and open to all.
For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.
If you wish to join the group, please email Larry Androes for Zoom meeting link, meeting ID, and password.
The All Souls middle and high school youth will be meeting via Zoom for religious education this Friday (16 October 2020) at 4:30 PM (email Susan Caldwell — Director of Religious Education — for Zoom link information).
“Ratifying the Eighth Principle” — After a check-in and some planning for the year to come, we will our exploration of the proposed eighth principle of Unitarian Universalism in preparation for its ratification by our congregation along with continuing to plan for our Eight Principle worship service on 18 October 2020.
Please join us on Sunday (4 October 2020) at 11:00 AM for our annual “Blessing of the Animals” worship service.
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
We will have a virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us for our online religious education for children and youth this Sunday (4 October 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom at 1:00 PM after the virtual coffee hour is over.
The Zoom link will be on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
If you are not in this group and you are interested in having your children participate, email Susan for help joining this Facebook Group.
This Sunday — “The Animals That Share Our Home in the Web”
On Blessing of the Animals Sunday, we’ll talk a little more about how the animals in our lives remind us to live out our seventh principle (respect for the interdependent web of all life).
If you have any questions, send Susan Caldwell an email or text her at 318-465-3427 for help joining this online religious education class.
Please join us on Sunday (4 October 2020) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We will continue the next series of Faith Forward — UU Theology.
UU Theology is a planned as a six-session series exploring various theological concepts through a Unitarian Universalist lens.
Each session addresses the question “What does our Unitarian Universalist tradition teach about this concept, and how does that help me clarify and act on my own beliefs?”
This week in UU Theology, we will explore Session 6 — “What Saves Us?”
We look again, more closely, at the roof of our theological house or soteriology (the study of salvation).
If that’s a loaded word for you (or even if it isn’t), take a calming breath and join us to explore this concept in a Unitarian Universalist context.
We’ll talk about how community offers us the opportunity for healing and wholeness along with how each of us is part of that process.
The “New UU” class will start this Sunday (4 October 2020) with facilitator Bennett Upton at 1:00 PM via Zoom.
Bennett has started a new session of this course that offers insight into Unitarian Universalist history, theology, and practice as well as a deeper dive into our own congregation.
This is a great way to learn more about our faith and our church and to spend some time with other members in a small group setting.
It’s not just for newcomers and not just for those who’ve never taken it before — a refresher is always good.
Citizen Education Launch on Amendment 5 will happen on Monday (5 October 2020) at 6:30 PM via Zoom.
A Message from retired Lieutenant General Russel Honoré:
I’m writing to invite you to the launch of an education campaign to oppose Constitutional Amendment 5 which is on the ballot this November.
I think it’s one of the worst things to hit Louisiana since Katrina.
We’re launching a citizen education campaign to fight Amendment 5 this Monday, October 5th, at 6:30 PM on Zoom.
I’d like to invite you to attend.
We can have up to 1,000 people on the Zoom call.
You can register for the call here.
What Amendment 5 Would Do
Amendment 5 would allow industrial corporations to negotiate what they pay in property taxes, while the rest of us pay what the law requires.
It would defund public education, pull money away from roads, bridges, healthcare and hurricane recovery and shift the tax burden to working families and small businesses.
The ballot language was “engineered to intentionally confuse the average American voter,” as one reporter put it.
That’s why the community education campaign we’re starting is so important.
Attendees to the event on Monday will receive:
So please join us on Monday (5 October 2020) at 6:30 PM.
Tell your friends. Organize your neighbors.
Together Louisiana is building a statewide network of block captains to increase voter turnout.
Thanks to All the Souls who have already signed up to help with this.
Together Louisiana now have over 1,100 block captains signed up across our state.
The 2020 election goals are:
Being a Block Captain means:
Together Louisiana will provide you with a list of voters and the materials and training you need to be effective.
This is a purely grassroots effort and is not supporting any candidate or party.
If you are interested or just want to learn more, sign up here.