Vegan Potluck and Documentary — The Invisible Vegan

Please join us on Sunday (29 June 2025) after the 11:00 AM worship service for a vegan potluck and screening of the documentary film The Invisible Vegan preesented by the All Souls Peace Alliance.

Bring a vegan dish to share.  And if you need a recipe, just Google for recipes, look on Pinterest, or ask Joy Walker for suggestions.

The Invisible Vegan is a documentary by Jasmine C. Leyva that explores the problem of unhealthy dietary patterns in the African American community, and the possibilities enabled by plant-based vegan diet and lifestyle choices.

Northwest Louisiana Lighthouse Ribbon Cutting Ceremony (26 June 2025)

Join us for the official Ribbon Cutting of the second Community Lighthouse in Shreveport:

Community Lighthouses are a network of grid resilience hubs equipped with commercial-scale solar power and a backup water supply.

These hubs are designed to act as neighborhood response centers during power outages and emergencies.

Power ourages are the leading cause of death in the wake of a disaster: not the flood waters, the winds, or the ice. Community Lighthouses save lives!

Register to attend here — If you like, you can stay for the Highland Blessing Dinner following the ribboncutting ceremony.

No Kings Day in Shreveport (14 June 2025)

No Kings Day in Shreveport will happen on Saturday (14 June 2025) from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the Caddo Parish Courthouse.

Join All Souls friends and other Northwest Louisiana folks in this nationwide day of protest in defense of the Constitution and the rule of law and also against the cruel treatment of immigrants, the obscene Kim Jong Un-style parade, and the unlawful use of our troops against our own citizens.

Pride in Due Process Protest Festival (28 June 2025)

Join us in an intersectional celebration of PRIDE on Saturday (28 June 2025) from 12 noon to 5:00 PM at All Souls.

This event brought to you by and various collaborating groups including All Souls.

The afternoon will feature speakers, table displays, music, games, and more.

As the sign says — Rights for Y’all Means Rights for All!

Don’t let them take your joy!  Come on out and connect with your community!

All Ages Worship (8 June 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (8 June 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Juneteenth” with Barbara Deger and friends.

Yes, we are a few weeks early — but to give Juneteenth and Father’s Day each their due — we decided to take this one first.

19 June 1865 was the day that news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally officially reached enslaved people in Texas although enslavers had known it much longer.

Why didn’t more of us learn this in school?

Join us to explore the history of the holiday, as well as current efforts in some cities to cancel the observance.

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,  flu and RSV maintaining a very low level in our state as of 31 May 2025.

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 June 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is the OutNorthLA Film Festival.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (8 June 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (8 June 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.

Our topic will be Naomi Klein on the rise of end times fascism facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger

We will view and discuss an interview with award-winning journalist, author, and Professor of Climate Justice at British Columbia University.

She spoke with Democracy Now host Amy Goodman about the recent article she co-authored with Astra Taylor (“The Rise of End Times Fascism“).

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor say:

We are convinced that the more people understand the extent to which the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (1 June 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (1 June 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.

Our topic will be “How Fascism Works Explained – A Video Exploration of the Book by Jason Stanley” and facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger.

OutNorthLA Film Festival — June 2025 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

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 June 2025, we choose the OutNorthLA Film Festival.

This film festival is North Louisiana’s acclaimed LGBTQ film festival which returns 5-11 September 2025.

Two ways to donate:

OnlineGo 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 Shreveport Green and then put “GATP JUN 2025” or “OutNorthLA” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of June 2025 will go to the OutNorthLA Film Festival.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “OutNorthLA” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to Shreveport Green.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to OutNorthLA, please put the amount you want going to OutNorthLA on the memo line.