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 (15 November 2015) for “Wordsmithing: The Uses of Poetry” by Barbara Deger and Carol Graywing.
Two of our resident poets will read from their own works and talk about what poetry has meant to them in their own lives.
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 at 9:15 AM for a screening of Dr. Cornel West giving his 2015 Ware Lecture at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly.
This past summer in Portland OR, over 3000 Unitarian Universalists had the honor and privilege to hear author, theologian and civil rights activist Dr. Cornel West.
Grounding his talk in questions asked by the late W.E..B. Dubois to the younger generation and in his own deep faith, Dr. West shakes the rafters as he calls us to action on many of the human rights issues of the present day.
Kathy Osuch will facilitate discussion of the video.
In two weeks (29 November 2015) — Our Discussion of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow continues with Chapter 4 (“The Cruel Hand”) which will look at the way the caste system operates after people are released from prison.
We will not have class next week (22 November 2015) which is the day of our Thanksgiving service and feast. Class will resume on 29 November 2015.
Please join us on Sunday (8 November 2015) at 11:00 AM for our worship service — “For It Is in Giving That We Receive” by Tree Davidson Snow.
Tree Davidson Snow is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and longtime friend of the church who will speak to us on how we cultivate a grateful heart in those times when life does not seem to be leading us in that direction.
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.
The 9:15 AM Sunday Adult Religious Education Class will meet this week (Sunday, 8 November 2015).
We will be discussing Chapter 3 (“The Color of Justice”) in the book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. This chapter looks at the role of race in the criminal justice system:
Given the relatively balanced rate of criminal activity by whites and blacks, how does a supposedly race-neutral system round up, arrest, and imprison such a large number of black and brown men?
Please joins us on Sunday (1 November 2015) at 11:00 AM for “This Side of the Tower of Babel” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. This service will be about communication, activism, citizenship and other important things.
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.
The 9:15 AM Sunday Adult Religious Education Class will meet this week (Sunday, 1 November 2015).
We will be discussing Chapter 2 (“TheLockdown”) in the book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.
Please join us this Sunday (25 October 2015) at 11:00 AM for our worship service. Rev. Barbara Jarrell will be in the pulpit and we are delighted to have special musical guests Twang Darkly.
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.
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.