Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (6 April 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (6 April 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 be watching Part 2 of Jon Stewart’s interview with Maria Ressa.

Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American Nobel Laureate, journalist, activist, and author of How to Stand Up to a Dictator.

Maria Ressa is an extraordinary person whose voice is so necessary in the world right now.

As a journalist and CEO of the Filipino online news site Rappler, she was a prominent critic of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and was arrested by the regime on 10 different charges (two which she is still contesting.

She is the author of the book How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future.

Volunteers for Youth Justice — April 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 April 2025, we choose Volunteers for Youth Justice.

As their mission statement says, Volunteers for Youth Justice seeks to “provide a caring community for children, youth, and families in crisis” and they do so through many programs:

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 Volunteers for Youth Justice and then put “GATP APR 2025” or “Volunteers for Youth Justice” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of April 2025 will go to the Volunteers for Youth Justice.

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

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (30 March 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (30 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 be watching Part 1 of Jon Stewart’s interview with Maria Ressa.

Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American Nobel Laureate, journalist, activist, and author of How to Stand Up to a Dictator.

Maria Ressa is an extraordinary person whose voice is so necessary in the world right now.

As a journalist and CEO of the Filipino online news site Rappler, she was a prominent critic of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and was arrested by the regime on 10 different charges (two which she is still contesting.

She is the author of the book How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future.

 

Field Gay (29 March 2025)

ShrevePride‘s Field Gay is happening on Saturday (29 March 2025) and All Souls is asking for your help.

Field Gay is a fun day of games based on the idea of Field Day in elementary school.

Whether you play the games or not, it’s also a fun day for visiting the different vendors and information tables, watching the games, and seeing your friends.

All Souls will have a booth there and we can use some volunteers to help.

We need help with the following tasks:

  • Setup — 8:00 AM
  • Staffing our booth throughout the day (9:00 AM – 3:00 PM)
  • Breakdown — 3:00 PM

Borderland Film Screening (Sunday, 30 March 2025)

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.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (16 March 2025)

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.

Vegan Potluck and Seaspiracy Documentary Screening (23 March 2025)

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.

All Ages Worship (9 March 2025)

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.

All Souls Peace Alliance Meeting (9 March 2025)

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.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (9 March 2025)

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).