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 Saturday (11 January 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.
On this Sunday (5 January 2025) as we enter the new year, the children and youth will have a chance to record their wishes, hopes, and dreams for the New Year using spy paper and stir them into a common bowl of water.
They can also use this ritual to release all that they want to leave behind in the old year.
The New UU class will resume after we enter the new year and will be facilitated by Bennett Upton.
We will meet Sundays after service – 12:30 PM resuming on 5 January 2025
This 6 session course is for all new members, people interested in becoming members, and not-so-new members who might need a refresher and reminder of what we’re doing here.
The 6 sessions cover the history of Unitarian Univesralism and this congregation also exploring our practices and shared principles and values.
Email Bennett if you are interested in joining this class.
Upcoming Class Schedule
Please join us on Sunday (5 January 2025) at 3:00 PM for a screening of “A Case of Outrageous Injustice” (a documentary on the arrest and imprisonment of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui).
The documentary will be screened at The Highland Center (520 Olive Street, Shreveport LA 71104) in the large conference room. Please use the Olive Street entrance and follow the signs and the directions from the volunteers who are running this event.
The documentary screening is sponsored by the Shreveport chapter of UUJME (Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East).
Admission is free and snacks will be provided.
There will be discussion afterward and an optional letter-writing campaign for those who wish to participate.
The adult religious education class will not meet this Sunday (5 January 2025).
The class will resume on Sunday, 12 January 2025 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.
Our dual-platform adult religious education class will begin reading and discussing Love at the Center.
This is an anthology of Unitarian Universalist theological writings by various leaders of our movement seeking to answer the question posed by Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt in the book’s introduction:
“We may agree that love is central, but what does that mean to us and what does it require of us?”
This book is currently available only in ebook format pending final edits of the approved revisions to Article II of the UUA Bylaws at the 2024 General Assembly (Kindle, Nook, and Kobo).
For 12 January 2025, we will continue our reading and discussion with Chapter 16 (“Love and Risk” by Dr. Robert Spirko) and Chapter 17 (“When Love is Criminalized,” by Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen).
If you don’t have this book, you can read the chapters online here.
Please join us on Saturday (4 January 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.
On this Sunday (29 December 2024 — the fifth day of Hanukkah), the group will hear the Hanukkah story and learn and play the game of Dreidel.
They can also take home a dreidel to teach the game to their families if they wish.
The adult religious education class will not meet this Sunday (29 December 2024) or the following Sunday (5 January 2025).
The class will resume on Sunday, 12 January 2025 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.
Our dual-platform adult religious education class will begin reading and discussing Love at the Center.
This is an anthology of Unitarian Universalist theological writings by various leaders of our movement seeking to answer the question posed by Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt in the book’s introduction:
“We may agree that love is central, but what does that mean to us and what does it require of us?”
This book is currently available only in ebook format pending final edits of the approved revisions to Article II of the UUA Bylaws at the 2024 General Assembly (Kindle, Nook, and Kobo).
For 12 January 2025, we will continue our reading and discussion with Chapter 16 (“Love and Risk” by Dr. Robert Spirko) and Chapter 17 (“When Love is Criminalized,” by Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen).
If you don’t have this book, you can read the chapters online here.
Please join us on Saturday (28 December 2024) 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.