Category: Social Justice

Please join us on Sunday (14 October 2018) at 11:00 AM for “This I Believe” with Rebecca Tuggle, Kevin Henry, and Tena Hines.  John Allen will be our worship associate.

Three All Souls members will speak about the foundational principles that guide their lives today and the continuing journey that has brought them here thus far.

#RONFEST2018 continues in this service and in a brief celebration afterward.  We celebrate the service that Ron Thurston has provided to All Souls as we bid him farewell.

Our “Give Away the Plate” recipient for October 2019 is Noel United Methodist Church Food Pantry.

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 (24 June 2018) at 11:00 AM for “Stay Angry” by Melissa Gibson (All Souls member and activist).

It is healthy and understandable to be angry in these times.

How do we maintain our energy and channel our anger in such a way that we stay effective to create change where it is so badly needed?

A Reminder that “Give Away the Plate Has Changed”  — Rather than selecting one charity or non-profit at the end of the month, we now give half of all of our non-pledge income for the entire month to a selected non-profit.

For the month of June, we have chosen The Philadelphia Center for sponsorship of their annual silent auction in August.

Summer fun activities for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service.  This week’s summer fun is mindfulness and meditation for all ages.

Please join us on Sunday (10 June 2018) at 11:00 AM for A Celebration of Pride featuring guest speaker Brad Campbell.

We are delighted to welcome Brad Campbell to our pulpit for the first time.

Brad is a retired middle school English teacher now in his second career as Training Coordinator for Volunteers of America.

He has been involved with LGBTQ advocacy as a member of PACE (People Acting for Change and Equality) and as one of the organizers of the North Louisiana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

A Reminder that “Give Away the Plate Has Changed”  — Rather than selecting one charity or non-profit at the end of the month, we now give half of all of our non-pledge income for the entire month to a selected non-profit.

For the month of June, we have chosen The Philadelphia Center for sponsorship of their annual silent auction in August.

Summer fun activities for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service.  This week’s summer fun is “Tie-Dye Sunday.”

Children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then leave for their summer fun event.

Please join us on Sunday (3 June 2018) at 11:00 AM for “A Backpack for the Journey” where we will honor the transitions of our children and youth.

We also honor our graduating senior Sam First.

The Affirmation Sunday service is our end of the religious education year where we honor our children and youth — celebrating their transitions as well as the culmination of our pillar on personal spiritual growth and development.

This is a service of joy and hope and a bit of fun, too.

Sam First will give his Senior Sermon, and we will also take time to honor other graduates in our wider church community, as well as the milestones of all the children and youth.

Please join us to be part of a community that honors and celebrates Sam and all the young people who have so much to teach us.

Reminder:  Give Away the Plate has changed –rather than selecting one charity or non-profit at the end of the month, we now give half of all of our non-pledge income for the entire month to a selected non-profit.

For the month of June 2018, we have chosen The Philadelphia Center for sponsorship of their annual auction in August 2018.

Please join us on Sunday (8 April 2018) at 11:00 AM for “The Right to Go to Hell” by James T. McCollum.

Seventy years ago on March 8, 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an 8-1 decision in favor of Vashti McCollum vs. the Board of Education of Champaign IL.

Mrs. McCollum — an atheist — objected to so-called “voluntary” classes in religious instruction in her young son James’s elementary school.

She objected on the grounds that they were not only inappropriate for public school but also that they were not voluntary at all (considering that the children who did not wish to participate were ostracized by their peers and even coerced by their teachers to attend).

Justice Hugo Black wrote the majority opinion and the American Unitarian Association was one of several religious groups supporting the decision.

We are honored to welcome Jim McCollum to our pulpit today to talk about this historic decision — still all too timely in many ways — from the eyes of the child at the center of it.

Jim is married to the Rev. Betty Grace McCollum who has spoken several times at All Souls.  This will be his first time in our pulpit.

Please join us to make him welcome and do join us at 9:15 AM for the documentary film about this case — “The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today.”

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.