Category: Social Justice

Online All-Ages Worship (4 April 2021)

Please join us on Sunday (4 April 2021) at 11:00 AM for our special Easter holiday service with Rev. Barbara Jarrell and friends.

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

Join us on Easter Sunday when we will celebrate and pay tribute to the common thread of new life that runs through the holidays we celebrate at this time of year– the new life returning to the Earth, the new life of freedom promised in the Passover story, and the spirit of resurrection that brings meaning to the Christian celebration of Easter.

If you are in the local area, check your doorstep (you may find a gift or gifts to help you participate with us).

Our April 2021 give-away-the-plate recipient is Volunteers for Youth Justice.  More details here.

We will have a  virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.

While we are remaining physically distant, we want to know how you are doing, what you need, and what you are interested in.  You can let us know using these online surveys.

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

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Volunteers for Youth Justice — April 2021 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

Our Give Away the Plate recipient for the month of April 2021 is Volunteers for Youth Justice (VYJ) — an organization created to serve children and families in crisis.

This month, we’re asking that when you donate money for VYJ to All Souls and All Souls will get the money to VYJ at the end of the month.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2021 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.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of April 2021 will go to 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 “VYJ” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of this check go to Volunteers for Youth Justice.  If you want less than 100% of the check go to Volunteers for Youth Justice, please put the amount you want going to VYJ on the memo line.

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Online Adult Religious Education — 4 April 2021

Please join us on Sunday (4 April 2021) at 9:30 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom (please note the time change for Easter Sunday only).

Due to Easter holiday distractions, our adult religious education class is meeting for check-in only.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo) next Sunday (11 April 2021) at our regularly scheduled 9:00 AM class time.

We will be discussing chapters two and three of this book.

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Online All-Ages Worship (28 March 2021)

Please join us on Sunday (28 March 2021) at 11:00 AM for “Landscape and Justice” by. Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

Where are you in the landscape of justice?

What part of it is yours to preserve and grow?

Our March 2021 give-away-the-plate recipient is Holy Cross Hope House (a day shelter for the homeless).  More details here.

We will have a  virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.

While we are remaining physically distant, we want to know how you are doing, what you need, and what you are interested in.  You can let us know using these online surveys.

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

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Online Religious Education for Children (28 March 2021)

Please join us online for our family religious education class on Sunday (28 March 2021) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.

The Zoom link will be available on the All Souls Slack and on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.

We will be reading the story Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris and Ana Ramirez Gonzalez — a true story about our nation’s Vice President and how she was working for big changes in her community even as a young child.

We will also play some games and have some fun.

Contact Susan Caldwell by email if you have any questions.

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Online Adult Religious Education — 28 March 2021

Please join us on Sunday (28 March 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

What Now?  Living the Eight Principle:  Beginning this Sunday — White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo)

In December 2020, we celebrated our congregational ratification of the Eighth Principle.

We also noted that the language of the Eighth Principle holds us to be accountable for the work of dismantling systemic racism and white supremacy culture.

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Online All-Ages Worship (21 March 2021)

Please join us on Sunday (21 March 2021) at 11:00 AM for “Of Love and Power” by. Rev. Barbara Jarrell

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

Rev. Barbara Jarrell is back in the pulpit this morning speaking on relationship between love, power, and justice.

Our March 2021 give-away-the-plate recipient is Holy Cross Hope House (a day shelter for the homeless).  More details here.

We will have a  virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.

While we are remaining physically distant, we want to know how you are doing, what you need, and what you are interested in.  You can let us know using these online surveys.

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

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Online Religious Education for Children (21 March 2021)

Please join us online for our family religious education class on Sunday (21 March 2021) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.

The Zoom link will be available on the All Souls Slack and on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.

In our continuing theme of learning how to live into the Eighth Principle, we will read the book Not My Idea:  A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham.

That should give us plenty to talk about.

We will also take some time to reconnect and play some games.

Contact Susan Caldwell by email if you have any questions.

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Online Adult Religious Education — 21 March 2021

Please join us on Sunday (21 March 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

What Now? Living the 8th Principle: Revisiting Covenant with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger.

In December 2020, we celebrated our congregational ratification of the Eighth Principle.  We noted at the time that the language of this principle holds us accountable to the work of dismantling systemic racism and white supremacy culture.

This Sunday, we will take a look at our congregational covenant of right relations.

In many ways, it’s an excellent covenant created through a thoughtful and thorough process facilitated by thoughtful and thorough people.

We have no need to scrap it — but as always — we don’t know what we don’t know.

Our goal here is to look at our covenant through an anti-racist lens, and see where our language may have unintentionally upheld white supremacy culture.

This is how we “honor the intent, own the impact.”

Beginning on Sunday, 28 March 2021, we will begin a study of the book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.

Susan Caldwell will be ordering books for the class for all who request them and is happy to include you in the order whether you attend the class or do not attend (of course we’d love for you to attend the class).

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