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
Join us on Sunday (30 March 2025) at 6:00 PM for a screening of the documentary film Borderland: The Line Within.
This is an award-winning documentary exposing the profit-based aspects of immigration by telling the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes who are organizing and fighting for their human rights in the shadow of the border industrial complex.
Please join us on Sunday (16 March 2025) for our adult religious education class 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.
We will conclude our viewing of the documentary film Israelism on this Sunday (more information on the film here).
This documentary explores changing attitudes among young Jewish Americans who question Israeli policies governing the Palestinians.
Please join us on Sunday (23 March 2025) for a vegan potluck and a screening of the documentary film Seaspiracy hosted by the All Souls Peace Alliance.
The potluck and film screening will happen after the 11:00 AM service is finished.
Bring a vegan dish to pass and join us for this documentary by British filmmaker Ali Tabrizi that explores the environmental impact of commercial fishing.
The Peace Alliance is a group exploring veganism as a path to peace — forsaking both the cruelty and the environmental damage of factory farming and commercial fishing.
Exploring veganism need not be an all-or-nothing or all-at-once proposition. Join us to learn about changes large and small that you can make.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
Please join us this Sunday (9 February 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Meeting a Selma Moment” with Guest Speaker Curtis Davis.
As we commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the marches from Selma to Montgomery, Together Louisiana affiliates and others across the state are paying tribute to those who have gone before by meeting the current moment to oppose Amendment 3.
Although Together Louisiana and North Louisiana Interfaith are recommending we vote no on all amendments on the 29 March 2025 ballot, we want to focus this Sunday mostly on Amendment 3
Amendment 3 allow children as young as 13 who have committed a felony to be tried as adults.
Author and activist Curtis Davis of the 2nd Chance at Life Foundation joins us to look at this moment in the context of history — in Selma and closer to home in Caddo Parish.
We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service. Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106 if you are able to do so.
Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.
State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page. The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link. The link is currently showing COVID and flu rates increasing and RSV decreasing as of 1 March 2025.
The CDC no longer provides updated risk information for Caddo, Bossier, and De Soto Parishes. We are relying on the Louisiana Department of Health for COVID risk assessments at this time.
Starting on 13 November 2022, masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.
Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.
We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.
We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms, and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.
We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.
However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.
If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.
We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.
And of course — if you have symptoms (COVID or other respiratory illness) — please stay home and take care of yourself.
Our March 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is Home is Here Shreveport.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
The All Souls Peace Alliance meets this Sunday (9 March 2025) in the church social hall.
The Peace Alliance is a group at All Souls exploring veganism as a path to peace forsaking both the cruelty and the environmental damage of factory farming.
This Sunday’s meeting will plan our vegan potluck and documentary screening on Sunday (23 March 2025) after the worship service.
You need not be vegan to attend All Souls Peace Alliance events.
Exploring veganism need not be an all-or-nothing or all-at-once proposition.
Join us to learn about changes large and small that you can make.
Please join us on Sunday (9 March 2025) for our adult religious education class 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.
We will view the documentary film Israelism over two class sessions (more information on the film here).
This documentary explores changing attitudes among young Jewish Americans who question Israeli policies governing the Palestinians.
We will view and discuss the film in two parts on this Sunday (9 March 2025) and next Sunday (16 March 2025).
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.
For the month of March 2025, we choose Home is Here Shreveport through Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention.
Our Home is Here group is currently raising money for an asylum seeker whose court hearing will be coming up in June 2025.
This is a hardworking person — currently working two jobs legally, learning English, and has even passed their driving test (despite the fact that their interpreter did not show up that day).
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to Home is Here Shreveport and then put “GATP MAR 2025” or “Home is Here Shreveport” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of March 2025 will go to the Home is Here Shreveport.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “Home is Here Shreveport” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to Home is Here Shreveport. If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Home is Here Shreveport, please put the amount you want going to Home is Here Shreveport on the memo line.
Please join us this Sunday (23 February 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Welcoming the Stranger: Immigration Advocacy as a Spiritual Practice” by Frances Kelley.
Frances Kelley (Project Coordinator for Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention – LA AID) is in the pulpit this Sunday to share with us the possibilities for immigration advocacy amid the changing landscape in the days to come.
Joining her as worship associates will be LA AID Volunteer Coordinator and All Souls board member Susan Yellott and UUJME leader and frequent LAAID volunteer Taha Hayat.
We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service. Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106 if you are able to do so.
Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.
State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page. The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link. The link is currently showing COVID, RSV, and flu rates with a small decrease as of 15 February 2025.
The CDC no longer provides updated risk information for Caddo, Bossier, and De Soto Parishes. We are relying on the Louisiana Department of Health for COVID risk assessments at this time.
Starting on 13 November 2022, masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.
Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.
We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.
We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms, and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.
We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.
However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.
If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.
We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.
And of course — if you have symptoms (COVID or other respiratory illness) — please stay home and take care of yourself.
Our February 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is the Highland Center Ministries.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.