Category: Social Justice

Religious Education for Children and Youth (17 May 2026)

Bake Sale and Bracelet Sale to benefit Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention.

Whether you’ve got cash, check, or card, this is the Sunday to bring your worthy donation to purchase some delicious baked goods and beautiful bracelets made by our children and youth along with their families and friends.

In the spirit of welcoming the stranger, all proceeds will be donated to Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (LaAID).

So do a little shopping for bakery and bling before or after this Sunday’s congregational meeting.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (17 May 2026)

Please join us on Sunday (17 May 2026) 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.

For this Sunday, we will explore “American Apartheid is Back, Part 1.”

We will continue reading some of our nation’s foundational documents, but we are pausing that for the next two weeks for a look at one man’s response to the recent Louisiana v. Callais Supreme Court decision, the current repercussions, and those likely to come.

The man is Elie Mystal — correspondent for The Nation and author of the books Bad Law and Allow Me to Retort:  A Black Man’s Guide to the Constitution.

We will watch this interview with Mystal by Dean Obeidallah of SiriusXM Radio in two parts with time for discussion each week.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (10 May 2026)

Please join us on Sunday (10 May 2026) 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.

For this Sunday, we will explore the Bill of Rights.

After we read the Declaration of Independence, the class got excited and said “Let’s read the Constitution!”

Then we decided to back up a little and start with the Bill of Rights.

There’s a growing movement of people rereading these documents that — even though written by land-owning and often people-owning white men — do actually belong to all of us and it’s time for us to dig in.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (3 May 2026)

Please join us on Sunday (3 May 2026) 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.

For this Sunday, we will be exploring “Revisiting Our Declaration:  Reading the Declaration of Independence in These Times.”

We will reflect on a reading from the book Our Declaration by Danielle Allen and revisit the text of the Declaration of Independence itself.

If you have never read it in its entirety or it has been awhile since you did read it, the relevance to the present day may be startling.

Join us.

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Highland Center Ministries — May 2026 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 May 2026, we choose the Highland Center Ministries — a partnership of congregations providing a variety of services to the Highland community:

  • Weekly Highland Blessing Dinner
  • Clothing closets for all ages and genders
  • Tax preparation services for people making $55,000 a year or less
  • Other sustainable services for the people of the Highland neighborhood

All Souls is proud to have been a part of this vital collaboration for 14 years.

Our two give-away-the-plate collections for Highland Center Ministries each year help All Souls with our pledged contribution to the Highland Center Ministries.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2026 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to the Highland Center Ministries and then put “GATP MAY 2026” or “Highland Center Ministries” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of May 2026 will go to the Highland Center Ministries.

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

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All Ages Worship (26 April 2026)

Please join us this Sunday (26 April 2026) at 11:00 AM for “Justice, Not Stigma” by Jazmine Carroll (Coordinator — GBT Health Center and PrEP Clinic — The Philadelphia Center, Shreveport LA)

Join us this Sunday to hear Jazmine Carroll from the Philadelphia Center (a full-service HIV/AIDS clinic and resource center and our Give Away the Plate Recipient for the month of April).

Jazmine will update us on the efforts to bring current HIV/AIDS criminalization laws into closer alignment with the actual science.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

We are moving our videos from Facebook to YouTube for long-term storage and viewing — you can find our worship videos on YouTube here.

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.

Flu, RSV, and COVID are all showing low numbers in Louisiana as of 18 April 2026.

Masking and COVID vaccination are optional for attending in-person events at All Souls.

We encourage you to be vaccinated against COVID and to also have the most-current COVID booster shots.  This provides greater protection to the individual and the church community.

Anyone who prefers wearing a mask is welcome to do so for in-person events and attending worship through livestream video is also an option where required for medical or schedule conflict reasons.

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.

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.

If you have symptoms for COVID or other respiratory illness, please stay home and take care of yourself.

Our April 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is The Philadelphia Center.

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

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Religious Education for Children and Youth (26 April 2026)

For this Sunday (26 April 2026), our children and youth will continue working on their project (bake sale and bracelet sale to benefit LAAID — Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention).  The bake sale / bracelet sale will be happening on Sunday (3 May 2026).

They will also be working on a separate project to support an event in Alexandria this coming week.

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All Ages Worship (19 April 2026)

Please join us this Sunday (19 April 2026) at 11:00 AM for “When Hope is Hard to Find” by Susan Caldwell with a Meditation by Kelli Coffey.

How and where do you find hope in challenging times?

The answer may be closer than you think.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

We are moving our videos from Facebook to YouTube for long-term storage and viewing — you can find our worship videos on YouTube here.

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.

Flu, RSV, and COVID are all showing low numbers in Louisiana as of 11 April 2026.

Masking and COVID vaccination are optional for attending in-person events at All Souls.

We encourage you to be vaccinated against COVID and to also have the most-current COVID booster shots.  This provides greater protection to the individual and the church community.

Anyone who prefers wearing a mask is welcome to do so for in-person events and attending worship through livestream video is also an option where required for medical or schedule conflict reasons.

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.

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.

If you have symptoms for COVID or other respiratory illness, please stay home and take care of yourself.

Our April 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is The Philadelphia Center.

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

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