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
The Shreveport Chapter of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East presents a viewing and discussion of Advocate on Saturday (26 April 2025) at 4:30 PM in the All Souls Social Hall.
This screening is free and open to all.
This award-winning 2019 documentary by Israeli filmmakers Rachel Leah Jones and Phillippe Belloiche profiles Jewish Israeli human rights lawyer Leah Tsemel who has spent much of her career in defense of Palestinians accused of terrorism.
The annual Pride in the Park celebration is happening on Saturday (12 April 2025) from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Columbia Park.
This is a fun and family-friendly event — we hope the terrific weather forecast holds for next Saturday.
Steve Caldwell is coordinating our booth at Pride this year and he can use help with the following tasks:
Email Steve or reply to the post on the All Souls Caring Connection if you can help next Saturday.
The annual Pride in the Park celebration is happening on Saturday (12 April 2025) from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Columbia Park.
This is a fun and family-friendly event — we hope the terrific weather forecast holds for next Saturday.
Steve Caldwell is coordinating our booth at Pride this year and he can use help with the following tasks:
Email Steve or reply to the post on the All Souls Caring Connection if you can help next Saturday.
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.
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:
Online — Go 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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.