Category: Social Justice

Please join us on 20 September 2015 at 11:00 AM for “It’s OK to Be Angry:  The Philosophy of Cold Anger” by Lady Carlson (lead organizer for Northern and Central Louisiana Interfaith).

Often, the things we see that need changing in our society can make us angry.  The kind of anger needed to make changes through organizing is not a hot, humorless, raging anger, but a cool and focused anger — tempered with humor and powered by the sustained energy of a committed community, working together.

Lady is always a powerful and inspiring speaker and we are blessed and excited to welcome her back.  The All Souls Choir will sing.

Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.

Please join us this Sunday (30 August 2015) at 11:00 AM for “The Federal Flood and the Lesson of Listening” by Susan Caldwell.  The All Souls Choir will sing in this worship service.

As we mark the 10th anniversary of Katrina, a particularly tone-deaf editorial by a writer for the Chicago Tribune has touched off a torrent of anger and pain among survivors in New Orleans, their friends and family and just about anyone with any connection to the storm, all over the country.

The oblivious and almost equally insensitive non-apology that followed is indicative of a wider problem … a pattern of not only failing to listen to other people’s experience but often going so far as to speak to those other people and to tell them how they should be thinking or feeling about their own experience.

Continue reading “30 August 2015 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth”

Please join us on Sunday (26 July 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Shining the Light of History” by Pamela Carter Carlisle.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett once said “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

Join us as we hear Pamela Carter Carlisle (All Souls Member and Local History / Public Outreach Specialist for the Bossier Library Historical Center) shine that light of truth into some of the darkest places of the racial history of our own area once known as “Bloody Caddo.”

Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.

Please join us on Sunday (28 June 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Celebrating Pride” with Pam Brown.

June is LGBTQ Pride Month — a time to celebrate the hard-won gains that have come about for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning individuals and to recommit our congregation in continued solidarity to the ongoing struggle.

Come and welcome Pam Brown to our pulpit for the first time.  Melissa Gibson will be our worship associate and Bob Jordan will provide the music.

Don’t miss this wonderful service, and plan to bring a dish to share and stay afterward for the Rainbow Potluck.

Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.

Please join us on Sunday (26 April 2015) at 11:00 AM for “My Brother’s Keeper” by Rev. Lee Jeter (Director of the Fuller Center for Housing of Northwest Louisiana).  The All Souls Choir will sing.

Religious Education classes for Children and Youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service.  Children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.

Please join us on Sunday (19 April 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Living on a Living Planet” — A Celebration of Earth Day with the Children, Youth and Adults of All Souls

Continuing our focus on the “Interdependent Web of All Existence” — we celebrate Earth Day with a focus not only on what we can do to take care of the planet, but also on the realization that taking care of the home we share includes taking care of each other.

Therefore, our focus is on “Peace, Social Justice and the Interdependent Web” — knowing, as Radha Sahar has said, that “everything relates to everything else.”  Please join us in celebration.

The All Souls Choir will sing (featuring Robert Smith on soprano sax) and we will have guest guitarists Mason Upton and Bob Jordan as well.