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 (22 May 2021) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.
This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.
The group is free and open to all.
For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.
Please join us online for our family religious education class on Sunday (16 May 2021) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.
The Zoom link will be available on the All Souls Slack and on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
This Sunday, we will continue the “Build Back Better” theme with a look at some of the different ways we can come back together safely in person and how that will look different from before.
Please join us on Sunday (16 May 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).
This week we will concentrate on Chapter 6 — “Anti-Blackness.”
While it can be helpful and necessary to speak in generalizations about white people and interrupt the hyper-individualist mindset, that same type of generalization can be damaging to people of color as it may trivialize the different patterns of racism that each group experiences.
In this chapter, DiAngelo explores the uniquely anti-black pattern of racism that has been integral to white identity, the idea of black people as “the ultimate racial other” and how that is the underlying foundation of white fragility.
Please join us on Saturday (15 May 2021) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.
This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.
The group is free and open to all.
For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.
Family Religious Education will not meet this Sunday afternoon (9 May 2021 — Mothers Day) and high school youth will not meet next Tuesday evening (11 May 2021) due to family travel conflicts.
Family Religious Education will resume the following week (16 May 2021) and high school youth will stay in touch about the next meeting via the text message thread and the All Souls Slack channel.
The adult religious education class will not meet this Sunday (9 May 2021 — Mother’s Day) but will resume on the following Sunday (16 May 2021).
On 16 May 2021, we will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).
Please join us on Saturday (8 May 2021) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.
This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.
The group is free and open to all.
For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.
Please join us online for our family religious education class on Sunday (2 May 2021) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.
The Zoom link will be available on the All Souls Slack and on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
“Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights” — We will watch a video combining this story read aloud with video from protests of last summer.
We will also spend some time talking about which of the activities in the book we have done and which we might like to do or need to do in working on the issues that face us now.
Contact Susan Caldwell by email if you have any questions.
Our High School youth will be meeting on Tuesday (4 May 2021) at 7:00 PM via Zoom.
The group is getting together for updates on congregational work on the Eighth Principle, calendaring / planning the end of the year Affirmation Sunday service, and updates on denominational opportunities for youth and young adults.
Contact Susan Caldwell by email if you have any questions or need information on this upcoming Zoom meeting.
Please join us on Sunday (2 May 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).
This week we will concentrate on Chapter 5 — “The Good/Bad Binary.”
White people often buy into the notion that “since only bad people are racist, and I am a good person, I have no complicity in racism and no responsibility to work on dismantling it.”
How do we move away from that kind of thinking into a more constructive mindset?
We have one additional copy of this book available if anyone else needs a copy. And we can also order more if needed.