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 (24 February 2019) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class (please note the earlier start time for this Sunday only).
We’re starting early this Sunday for the opportunity to hear from one of the most powerful and prophetic voices of our time — Rev. Dr. William Barber II (leader of the modern Poor People’s Campaign and Repairers of the Breach).
We will view the video of his address to the Peace and Justice Summit of the Equal Justice Initiative.
Please join us on Sunday (17 February 2019) at 11:00 AM for “Our Third Source: Learning and Growing with Love and Respect” with the children, youth, and adults of All Souls.Please join us on Sunday (17 February 2019) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class for an overview of yesterday’s (16 February 2019) Together Louisiana’s statewide leadership meeting in Alexandria along with an invitation to participate with Northern and Central Louisiana Interfaith and Together Louisiana during the upcoming legislative session and the 2019 and 2020 election cycles.
Our Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) affiliate organizations provide us with the opportunity for the kind of active citizenship for which voting is just the first step and we are able to accomplish more through these partnerships than we could ever do as one congregation.
Come and learn more about what we’re doing and how you can join in.
Please join us on Sunday (10 February 2019) at 11:00 AM for “With Help from the Essential Wisdom of the World’s Religions” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
We are continuing this season’s focus on the third source of Unitarian Universalism:
“the wisdom of the world’s religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life.”
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 (10 February 2019) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class — the wisdom of Pema Chödrön.
We will be viewing a presentation by this renowned Buddhist nun and teacher followed with discussion.
Please join us on Sunday (3 February 2019) at 11:00 AM for “The Four Limitless States of Mind” by Larry Androes
Larry Androes — teacher of the Saturday sitting Buddhist meditation — will be here to speak to us on the Four Limitless States of Mind: Metta (lovingkindness); Karuna (Compassion); Mudita (empathy) and Upekkha (equanimity).
Please join us to hear a speaker who shares these teachings with great compassion, joy, and humor.
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 (3 February 2019) for our 9:15 AM adult religious education class.
Continuing this season of focus on our third source (“wisdom from the world’s religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life”), we will view the next in a series of videos from the Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Summit at Emory University of Atlanta (featuring the Dalai Lama in dialogue with an internationally renowned multifaith group of religious leaders).
This week — having heard the responses of the assembled religious leaders to the Dalai Lama’s address — we turn now to a dialogue among the group.
Please join us on Sunday (27 January 2019) at 11:00 AM for “Right” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. What is right? Come and explore this with us on this World Religion Day.
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 (27 January 2019) for our 9:15 AM adult religious education class.
Continuing this season of focus on our third source (“wisdom from the world’s religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life”), we will view the next in a series of videos from the Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Summit at Emory University of Atlanta (featuring the Dalai Lama in dialogue with an internationally renowned multifaith group of religious leaders).
This week, we hear the next two responses of the gathered leaders to the Dalai Lama’s address — Sister Joan Chittester OSB (Benedictine nun, scholar, author, and theologian) and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im (Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University).
Please join us on Sunday (27 January 2019) from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM for the 20th Anniversary of Shreveport’s World Religion Day Celebration.
Join us for the 20th Annual Celebration of World Religion Day –Shreveport-Bossier and experience the true religious diversity of our community.
The event features table displays by participating faith groups as well as multifaith panel discussions on important issues of the day along with musical performances representing some of the participating groups.
We need volunteers to help us set up for the event on Saturday (26 January 2019) at 12:00 PM and to also staff the All Souls table in 90-minute shifts between 1:00 and 6:00 PM on Sunday (the event is over at 5:00 PM and the last shift will assist with post-event clean-up).