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
The 9:15 AM Sunday Adult Religious Education Class will take a break this week (Sunday, 25 October 2015)
The class will resume at 9:15 AM on Sunday, 1 November 2015, when we will be discussing Chapter 2 (“TheLockdown”) of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.
Please join us on Sunday (18 October 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Each on
Our Path, All Walking Together.”
Join the children, youth and adults of All Souls for a celebration of our fourth Unitarian Universalist Principle — a free and responsible search for truth and meaning.
That search is something different for each one of us. We grow in spirit and as a community when we take time to see things from another’s point of view.
Our adult religious education class will meet on Sunday (18 October 2015) at 9:15 AM with a book study / discussion group — The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-Blindness by Michelle Alexander.
A brutal tangle of draconian sentencing laws, selective prosecutions, unbalanced jury selection, and a prison-for-profit system fueled by a drug war resulting in far more casualties than victories has resulted in what Michelle Alexander calls ” … a stunningly comprehensive and well-disguised system of racialized social control that functions in a manner strikingly similar to [the pre-Civil Rights-era system of segregation known as] Jim Crow.”
This Week’s Class — “The Rebirth of Caste” — We explore the history of “how we got here,” starting with the beginning of slavery, moving through Reconstruction and its backlash, into Jim Crow, the Civil Rights era and its backlash, up to the present trend of mass incarceration.
For more information, please read this introduction to this book discussion group.
Please join us on Sunday (11 October 2015) at 11:00 AM for “In This World” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
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 adult religious education classes resume on Sunday (11 October 2015) at 9:15 AM with a book study / discussion group — The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-Blindness by Michelle Alexander.
A brutal tangle of draconian sentencing laws, selective prosecutions, unbalanced jury selection, and a prison-for-profit system fueled by a drug war resulting in far more casualties than victories has resulted in what Michelle Alexander calls ” … a stunningly comprehensive and well-disguised system of racialized social control that functions in a manner strikingly similar to [the pre-Civil Rights-era system of segregation known as] Jim Crow.”
This book was the 2012-2013 UUA Common Read. The tide may finally be turning on this issue — the Caddo Parish District Attorney and Sheriff elections this fall are particularly focused on many related issues covered in this book. Continue reading “Adult Religious Education Resumes 11 October 2015”
Please join us on Sunday (27 September 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Blessed is the Flame” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Our Jewish friends have just completed the celebration of the High Holy Days — a time of atonement, release, and beginning again in love.
In that spirit, we join together in a ritual of release and a celebration of new beginnings. The All Souls Choir will sing.
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.
A newcomer information session will take place after this service.
Next Sunday (4 October 2015) — our annual Blessing of the Animals service.
Please join us on 20 September 2015 at 11:00 AM for “It’s OK to Be Angry: The Philosophy of Cold Anger” by Lady Carlson (lead organizer for Northern and Central Louisiana Interfaith).
Often, the things we see that need changing in our society can make us angry. The kind of anger needed to make changes through organizing is not a hot, humorless, raging anger, but a cool and focused anger — tempered with humor and powered by the sustained energy of a committed community, working together.
Lady is always a powerful and inspiring speaker and we are blessed and excited to welcome her back. The All Souls Choir will sing.
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 this Sunday (13 September 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Seekers’ Sanctuary — A Homecoming Service” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
This will be a service to welcome everyone home to All Souls for the new church year — whether you’ve been away for years, weeks, or just since last Sunday.
We will honor those members of 25 years or longer, and ingather our new members. The All Souls Choir will sing.
A Potluck Lunch will take place in the Social Hall immediately following the service. Please bring a dish to share and join us, or join us without a dish to share.
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 (6 September 2015) at 11:00 AM for “The Language of Hope” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. The All Souls Choir will sing at this 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 this Sunday (30 August 2015) at 11:00 AM for “The Federal Flood and the Lesson of Listening” by Susan Caldwell. The All Souls Choir will sing in this worship service.
As we mark the 10th anniversary of Katrina, a particularly tone-deaf editorial by a writer for the Chicago Tribune has touched off a torrent of anger and pain among survivors in New Orleans, their friends and family and just about anyone with any connection to the storm, all over the country.
The oblivious and almost equally insensitive non-apology that followed is indicative of a wider problem … a pattern of not only failing to listen to other people’s experience but often going so far as to speak to those other people and to tell them how they should be thinking or feeling about their own experience.
Continue reading “30 August 2015 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth”