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 Sunday (1 September 2024) immediately following our 11:00 AM worship service for a vegan potluck sponsored by the All Souls Peace Alliance.
You do not have to be vegan to enjoy this delicious plant-based feast.
Need recipes or just want more information — email Rev. Joy Walker.
Please join us on Sunday (15 September 2024) at 3:00 PM for a free screening of the documentary film The Game Changers followed by a discussion.
The Game Changers is a revolutionary documentary about meat, protein, and strength — this free documentary screening is sponsored by the All Souls Peace Alliance.
The documentary follows the story of a mixed martial arts fighter who faces some health challenges and discovers that everything he has been taught about protein and building strength has been wrong. The team of executive producers includes James and Suzy Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jackie Chan.
The All Souls Peace Alliance is a group exploring veganism as a path to peace. You need not be vegan in order to participate. If you are vegan-curious or just wanting to add more vegan options to your diet, you are more than welcome.
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 August 2024, we choose A Second Chance at Life Foundation. The All Souls Board chose this charity after hearing guest speaker Curtis Davis (Executive Director – A Second Chance at Life Foundation) speak at All Souls in July 2024.
This charity fills a great need here in the Shreveport metro area where there are no halfway houses specifically for people re-entering the community after incarceration.
This charity is establishes re-entry facilities for men and women here in Shreveport.
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2024 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to A Second Chance at Life Foundation and then put “GATP AUG 2024” or “A Second Chance at Life Foundation” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of August 2024 will go to A Second Chance at Life Foundation.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “A Second Chance at Life Foundation” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to A Second Chance at Life Foundation. If you want less than 100% of your check to go to A Second Chance at Life Foundation, please put the amount you want going to A Second Chance at Life Foundation on the memo line.
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.
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 (21 July 2024) at 11:00 AM for “The Joseph People
and the State of Re-Entry in Louisiana” by Curtis Davis (Executive Director — A 2nd Chance at Life Foundation).
We are honored to welcome Curtis Davis back to our pulpit this morning.
The story of Joseph in the Hebrew Testament is one of triumph over betrayal and imprisonment. Old stories endure for a reason and this one has much to teach us about the current state of incarceration and re-entry in Louisiana.
Wrongly imprisoned in Angola for 25 years, Curtis Davis has worked tirelessly since his 2016 release to help others who are incarcerated or recently released.
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.
The COVID risks for Caddo, Bossier and De Soto Parishes (the Shreveport metro area) are all low as of 16 May 2024 according to the CDC’s COVID CountyCheck website.
Additional 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 a marked increase in positive COVID tests as of 13 July 2024.
The CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in “low” risk areas.
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.
Artist Sunday 2024 is happening in one week (28 July 2024).
Our July 2024 give-away-the-plate recipient is North Louisiana Interfaith.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us on Sunday (21 July 2024) 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 continue our discussion of the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” plan for the future of the U.S. under a “conservative administration beginning in 2025” along with some policy details.
This is the plan that a Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts has called a “new American Revolution” and he says it “will remain bloodless if the left will allow it.”
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.
We did not have an in-person worship service on Sunday, 23 June 2024.
We had an all-ages potluck and watched the livestream video of the Sunday GA worship instead.
You can watch the GA worship service here (if you wish to fast-forward past the opening announcement slides, move forward to 15:00 minutes):
Please join us this Sunday (14 July 2024) at 11:00 AM for “Bending the Arc: The Difficult Takes a Little Time, The Impossible Takes a Little Longer” by Claudia Harris.
This quote from Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) — Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate — forms the basis for this timely message from Claudia Harris. Please join us!
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.
The COVID risks for Caddo, Bossier and De Soto Parishes (the Shreveport metro area) are all low as of 16 May 2024 according to the COVIDActNow website (no updates since then on this website). These parishes are also reported as “low” on the CDC’s COVID CountyCheck website.
Additional data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page.
The CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in “low” risk areas.
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.
Artist Sunday 2024 is happening in two weeks.
Our July 2024 give-away-the-plate recipient is North Louisiana Interfaith.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
