Vegan Potluck and Seaspiracy Documentary Screening (23 March 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (23 March 2025) for a vegan potluck and a screening of the documentary film Seaspiracy hosted by the All Souls Peace Alliance.

The potluck and film screening will happen after the 11:00 AM service is finished.

Bring a vegan dish to pass and join us for this documentary by British filmmaker Ali Tabrizi that explores the environmental impact of commercial fishing.

The Peace Alliance is a group exploring veganism as a path to peace — forsaking both the cruelty and the environmental damage of factory farming and commercial fishing.

Exploring veganism need not be an all-or-nothing or all-at-once proposition.  Join us to learn about changes large and small that you can make.

Zoom (and In-Person) Lunch This Wednesday (19 March 2025)

Please join us next Wednesday (19 March 2025) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

Our weekly Zoom lunch is returning to dual-platform access — join us from home using Zoom or in person in the social hall.

Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.

Meditation with Larry Androes (15 March 2025)

Please join us on Saturday (15 March 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.

9 March 2025 Worship Livestreaming Video

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.

This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.

For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live.  One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.

You can find the 9 March 2025 worship video here.

All Ages Worship (9 March 2025)

Please join us this Sunday (9 February 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Meeting a Selma Moment” with Guest Speaker Curtis Davis.

As we commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the marches from Selma to Montgomery, Together Louisiana affiliates and others across the state are paying tribute to those who have gone before by meeting the current moment to oppose Amendment 3.

Although Together Louisiana and North Louisiana Interfaith are recommending we vote no on all amendments on the 29 March 2025 ballot, we want to focus this Sunday mostly on Amendment 3

Amendment 3 allow children as young as 13 who have committed a felony to be tried as adults.

Author and activist Curtis Davis of the 2nd Chance at Life Foundation joins us to look at this moment in the context of history — in Selma and closer to home in Caddo Parish.

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 and flu rates increasing and RSV decreasing as of 1 March 2025.

The CDC no longer provides updated risk information for Caddo, Bossier, and De Soto Parishes.  We are relying on the Louisiana Department of Health for COVID risk assessments at this time.

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 March 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is Home is Here Shreveport.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.

Monthly Building and Grounds Work Day Moving to Next Saturday (15 March 2025)

Our monthly building and grounds work day usually happens on the second Saturday on the month.

For March 2025, the work day will happen on the third Saturday (15 March 2025) from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.  This change is due to forecasted inclement weather.

There are tasks indoors and out for all ages and abilities along with snacks for the volunteers.

This is a great way to build relationships with your All Souls community — working side by side to maintain the physical structure of our spiritual home.

All Souls Peace Alliance Meeting (9 March 2025)

The All Souls Peace Alliance meets this Sunday (9 March 2025) in the church social hall.

The Peace Alliance is a group at All Souls exploring veganism as a path to peace forsaking both the cruelty and the environmental damage of factory farming.

This Sunday’s meeting will plan our vegan potluck and documentary screening on Sunday (23 March 2025) after the worship service.

You need not be vegan to attend All Souls Peace Alliance events.

Exploring veganism need not be an all-or-nothing or all-at-once proposition.

Join us to learn about changes large and small that you can make.

Religious Education for Children and Youth (9 March 2025)

This Sunday’s religious education activity for children and youth during the 11:00 AM worship service will be exploring peace, social justice, and the interdependent web.

The last line of our Chalice Lighting says:

“We care for the Earth and for each other.”

This week we begin our season of emphasis on social justice as a spiritual practice in our history and in our actions in the present moment.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (9 March 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (9 March 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.

We will view the documentary film Israelism over two class sessions (more information on the film here).

This documentary explores changing attitudes among young Jewish Americans who question Israeli policies governing the Palestinians.

We will view and discuss the film in two parts on this Sunday (9 March 2025) and next Sunday (16 March 2025).

The New UU Class Finished Last Sunday (2 March 2025) — No Class on 9 March 2025

The New UU class will not be meeting this Sunday (9 March 2025).

Due to a last-minute scheduling change, the final class happened on Sunday, 2 March 2025.

We will offer this six-session class again in the future.

Email Bennett if you are interested in attending this class in the future.