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.
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 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.
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.
Please join us on Sunday (2 April 2017) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class — #UUWhiteSupremacyTeachIn.
This morning will be an exploration of a turning point in the racial history of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
We are a faith tradition whose ministers and laypersons rushed to Selma to march with Dr. King.
We are also a faith tradition that has tread awkwardly and sometimes stumbled over the issue of race within our own community.
We take some time this morning to explore a part of that complex history.
Children and youth religious education classes will be exploring anti-racism work through an age-appropriate lens during our 11:00 AM classes for them.
Excerpts from “Knowing Our Neighbors” (An Intergenerational Worship) with Susan Caldwell along with members and friends of All Souls.
Please join us on Easter Sunday (16 April 2017) at 11:00 AM for “Tomb to Womb — The Resurrection Shuffle.”
Our Easter service celebrates the possibility of resurrection in all of us. The service will feature music from the All Souls Choir as well as a communion ritual that is grounded in community and inclusive of all without regard to theology or belief.
An Easter Egg Hunt for Nursery through 5th grade children will take place immediately following the service.
Our Middle School and High School youth will hide the eggs and receive an appropriate “hider’s fee” for their efforts. Our young hunters are likely to be visited by a very special holiday guest as well.
If you have filled plastic eggs to drop off at the church, please drop them off no later than Saturday (15 April 2017).
You can leave them in a plastic bag by the office door, set them on the wall, or hang them on the door handle — they’ll be fine.
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.
