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 (21 May 2017) at 11:00 AM for “Of Joy and Dog Whistles” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
The All Souls Choir will sing.
A congregational meeting will follow the service.
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 (21 May 2017) at 9:15 AM as we continue in the spirit of the #uuwhitesupremacyteachin that we started on 30 April 2017.
We will be discussing Rauol Peck’s award-winning documentary I Am Not Your Negro (based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House).
The adult religious education class has already viewed this movie on 7 May 2017 (part 1) and 14 May 2017 (part 2). If you wish to watch this video before Sunday’s class, you can rent or purchase it as a streaming video from Amazon here.
This film has an MPAA rating of PG-13 for disturbing violent images, thematic material, language, and brief nudity.
To: All Members, Inactive Members, and Friends
From: James Peck (All Souls Board Secretary)
In accordance with the Bylaws of our church and as Secretary of the Board, I hereby announce that All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church will hold a Congregational Meeting in the sanctuary.
On the Agenda
Please make every effort to attend.
All active members should attend this meeting or give their proxies to those who can.
Inactive members and friends of the church are invited and encouraged to participate.
But bylaws stipulate that only those members who have been active 30 days or longer may vote. We must have a quorum.
Childcare will be provided.
Please join us on Sunday (14 May 2017) at 11:00 AM for “Nasty Women and Other Mothers” with Jennifer Russell, Amanda Lawrence, and Megan Bennett.
Using the three faces of the Goddess — Maiden, Mother, and Crone — these three women — three mothers from the congregation — will explore the various faces and stages of motherhood, mothering, and the way they affect all of us in one way or another.
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 (14 May 2017) at 9:15 AM as we continue in the spirit of the #uuwhitesupremacyteachin that we started on 30 April 2017.
We will be watching and discussing Rauol Peck’s award-winning documentary I Am Not Your Negro (based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House).
This film has an MPAA rating of PG-13 for disturbing violent images, thematic material, language, and brief nudity.
For 14 May 2017, we will conclude by watching part 2.
Please join us on Saturday (13 May 2017) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM for our monthly building and grounds work day.
Tasks for all ages and abilities — inside and out.
Check the to-do list above, bring any equipment you may have to help, or just bring yourself and your willingness to help.
Stay for a little while or the whole time.
Can’t stay? Consider dropping off snacks for the crew. We will need sustenance for the work ahead!
Please join us on Sunday (7 May 2017) at 11:00 AM for “A Thing of Beauty” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
To notice beauty each day, in some form or fashion, is to reconnect to the web of life and to our own humanity.
The service will feature music from the All Souls Choir.
Also, two new members will sign the membership book and publicly declare their membership to the wider congregation.
A newcomer information session will take place after the service.
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 (7 May 2017) at 9:15 AM as we continue in the spirit of the #uuwhitesupremacyteachin that we started last Sunday.
We will be watching and discussing Rauol Peck’s award-winning documentary I Am Not Your Negro (based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House).
This film has an MPAA rating of PG-13 for disturbing violent images, thematic material, language, and brief nudity.
For 7 May 2017, we will be watching part 1.
The May 2017 newsletter can be found online here.
Please note that our newsletter editor will be on sabbatical for the summer months (June, July, and August 2017).
For the summer months, we will be posting church news and event updates on our website and on our Facebook page. Both our web site and Facebook page do not require you to have a user account to read them. Both will provide a way to keep up with church news during the summer.
Please join us on Sunday (30 April 2017) at 11:00 AM as we join in the combined work of 635-plus Unitarian Universalist congregations across the North America.
We are devoting worship and religious education time to taking an honest look at the ways we as a faith tradition have been complicit in the very system of institutional racism that we have claimed to stand against.
Come and be a part of the #uuwhitesupremacyteachin.
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 children and youth will be continue exploring the anti-racism themes that our adults explored in their 9:15 AM class today.
