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
Join us on Sunday (30 March 2025) at 6:00 PM for a screening of the documentary film Borderland: The Line Within.
This is an award-winning documentary exposing the profit-based aspects of immigration by telling the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes who are organizing and fighting for their human rights in the shadow of the border industrial complex.
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.
There is no 9:00 AM adult religious education class this Sunday (23 March 2025).
Sleep in a little on Sunday and then join us for the 11:00 AM service followed by the vegan potluck and screening of Seaspiracy.
Please join us next Wednesday (26 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.
Please join us on Saturday (22 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.
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.
Please join us this Sunday (16 March 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Ready. Aim. Fire of Commitment!” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Welcome back, Rev. Barbara — she is back in the pulpit this morning and members of the All Souls Choir will sing.
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 holding steady and RSV decreasing as of 8 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.
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.
Please join us on Sunday (16 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 conclude our viewing of the documentary film Israelism on this Sunday (more information on the film here).
This documentary explores changing attitudes among young Jewish Americans who question Israeli policies governing the Palestinians.
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.