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
Melissa Lewis will be at the church parking lot this Sunday afternoon (6 February 2022) from 2:00 to 4:00 PM to collect food and other items for the Noel United Methodist Church Food Pantry.
Items requested this month are Jiffy cornbread mix, canned soups (any brand), and cereal (any brand).
Our give-away-the-plate recipient for February 2022 is the Whitney Plantation.
Every month, we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.
We usually choose a local organization but we are changing that for this Black History Month in order to honor The Whitney Plantation.
The Whitney is the only museum in Louisiana that focuses exclusively on the lives of enslaved people — a far cry from the usual plantation tours that often literally “whitewash” history.
The Whitney tells the story of the history of slavery on a South Louisiana sugar cane plantation. The Whitney is located in Wallace, Louisiana (an hour’s drive between Baton Rouge and New Orleans).
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2022 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to the Whitney Plantation. All online collection plate contributions for the month of February 2022 will go to the Whitney Plantation.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “Whitney Plantation” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of this check go to the Whitney Plantation. If you want less than 100% of the check to go to the Whitney Plantation, please put the amount you want going to the Whitney Plantation on the memo line.
You are invited to a fundraiser for Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention on 6 February 2022 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM at the Highland Center (520 Olive Street, Shreveport LA 71104).
Join us for an afternoon of food music, and art as we celebrate one year of advocacy and aid.
If you can’t come to the event, please donate to LA-AID using Venmo @LOuisianaAID or online via PayPal.
Please join us on Sunday (6 February 2022) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
This Sunday’s topic is “Redistricting in Louisiana”:
The Special Redistricting Session of the Louisiana Legislature opened this past Tuesday (1 February 2022) and must be completed by 20 February 2020.
This Sunday, we will have a brief overview of the redistricting process as well as updates from the session including the progress — or the lack so far — on creating a second minority-majority congressional district in Louisiana.
We will also take a few minutes to look at prospective legislation in the upcoming regular session and talk about where we go next with adult religious education — join us.
Please join us on Sunday (30 January 2022) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We are discussing episodes of the podcast Learning How to See with Rev. Brian McLaren, Father Richard Rohr, and Rev. Jacqui Lewis.
They are discussing the 13 kinds of bias that Rev. Barbara mentioned recently in a sermon.
The group felt that this series would keep us in the realm of our anti-racism work while also being topically relevant to our pillar on Jewish and Christian heritage as these three Christian leaders discuss our tendency toward these biases from a faith-based perspective.
Although we may play short excerpts during class, we are encouraging people to listen on their own between sessions.
For 30 January 2022 — Season 2, Bonus Episode — “Begin Again from the Beginning”
You can find all episodes of the podcast here.
If you have a smart speaker or other smart device from Google or Amazon, you can ask it to “play the podcast Learning How to See, Season 2, Bonus Episode.”
Be sure to use those specific words — if you just say the name of the podcast, you might get a different episode from Season 2 instead.
If you are using an Apple device with Siri, you can ask Siri to “search for podcast Learning How to See” to find this episode and all other episodes released so far in Learning How to See.
Please join us on Sunday (23 January 2022) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We are discussing episodes of the podcast Learning How to See with Rev. Brian McLaren, Father Richard Rohr, and Rev. Jacqui Lewis.
They are discussing the 13 kinds of bias that Rev. Barbara mentioned recently in a sermon.
The group felt that this series would keep us in the realm of our anti-racism work while also being topically relevant to our pillar on Jewish and Christian heritage as these three Christian leaders discuss our tendency toward these biases from a faith-based perspective.
Although we may play short excerpts during class, we are encouraging people to listen on their own between sessions.
For 23 January 2022 — Season 2, Episode 6 — “What Do You Want?”
You can find all episodes of the podcast here.
If you have a smart speaker or other smart device from Google or Amazon, you can ask it to “play the podcast Learning How to See, Season 2, Episode 6.”
Be sure to use those specific words — if you just say the name of the podcast, you might get the latest episode from Season 2 instead.
If you are using an Apple device with Siri, you can ask Siri to “search for podcast Learning How to See” to find this episode and all other episodes released so far in Learning How to See.
Please join us on Sunday (16 January 2022) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We are discussing episodes of the podcast Learning How to See with Rev. Brian McLaren, Father Richard Rohr, and Rev. Jacqui Lewis.
They are discussing the 13 kinds of bias that Rev. Barbara mentioned recently in a sermon.
The group felt that this series would keep us in the realm of our anti-racism work while also being topically relevant to our pillar on Jewish and Christian heritage as these three Christian leaders discuss our tendency toward these biases from a faith-based perspective.
Although we may play short excerpts during class, we are encouraging people to listen on their own between sessions.
For 16 January 2022 — Season 2, Episode 5 — “Hate and Love”
You can find all episodes of the podcast here.
If you have a smart speaker or other smart device from Google or Amazon, you can ask it to “play the podcast Learning How to See, Season 2, Episode 5.”
Be sure to use those specific words — if you just say the name of the podcast, you might get the latest episode from Season 2 instead.
If you are using an Apple device with Siri, you can ask Siri to “search for podcast Learning How to See” to find this episode and all other episodes released so far in Learning How to See.
Several of us are looking into the possibility of forming a group that would sponsor an Afghan refugee family through Sponsor Circles.
This is a big responsibility that would take a very intentional group of people and a number of us will be attending a meeting via Zoom this Monday evening (10 January 2022) at 5:00 PM CST to learn more.
Please join us on Sunday (9 January 2022) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We are discussing episodes of the podcast Learning How to See with Rev. Brian McLaren, Father Richard Rohr, and Rev. Jacqui Lewis.
They are discussing the 13 kinds of bias that Rev. Barbara mentioned recently in a sermon.
The group felt that this series would keep us in the realm of our anti-racism work while also being topically relevant to our pillar on Jewish and Christian heritage as these three Christian leaders discuss our tendency toward these biases from a faith-based perspective.
Although we may play short excerpts during class, we are encouraging people to listen on their own between sessions.
For 9 January 2022 — Season 2, Episode 4 — “Boxes Within Boxes”
You can find all episodes of the podcast here.
If you have a smart speaker or other smart device from Google or Amazon, you can ask it to “play the podcast Learning How to See, Season 2, Episode 4.”
Be sure to use those specific words — if you just say the name of the podcast, you might get the latest episode from Season 2 instead.
If you are using an Apple device with Siri, you can ask Siri to “search for podcast Learning How to See” to find this episode and all other episodes released so far in Learning How to See.
For Sunday (2 January 2022), our adult religious education class is taking a holiday break.
On 9 January 2022, we will resume our discussion of the podcast episodes Learning How to See with Rev. Brian McLaren, Father Richard Rohr, and Rev. Jacqui Lewis.
They are discussing the 13 kinds of bias that Rev. Barbara mentioned recently in a sermon.
The group felt that this series would keep us in the realm of our anti-racism work while also being topically relevant to our pillar on Jewish and Christian heritage as these three Christian leaders discuss our tendency toward these biases from a faith-based perspective.
Although we may play short excerpts during class, we are encouraging people to listen on their own between sessions.
For 9 January 2022 — Season 2, Episode 4 — “Boxes Within Boxes”
You can find all episodes of the podcast here.
If you have a smart speaker or other smart device from Google or Amazon, you can ask it to “play the podcast Learning How to See, Season 2, Episode 4.”
Be sure to use those specific words — if you just say the name of the podcast, you might get the latest episode from Season 2 instead.
If you are using an Apple device with Siri, you can ask Siri to “search for podcast Learning How to See” to find this episode and all other episodes released so far in Learning How to See.