Category: Social Justice

Vegan Potluck (2 June 2024)

On 2 June 2024 after our 11:00 AM worship service, the All Souls Peace Alliance (a group exploring veganism as a spiritual practice) will be hosting a vegan potluck.

If you need recipe ideas, here are some online resource to assist you:

You may also be able to adapt some of your favorite recipes by using plant-based substitutes for meat, milk, eggs, various cheeses, or other animal-derived ingredients.

A wide variety of plant-based products are now available at your nearest grocery store.

Be adventurous and have fun.

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All Ages Worship (12 May 2024)

Please join us this Sunday (12 May 2024) at 11:00 AM for “She’s Someone (a Mother’s Day Service)” with Jennifer Russell.

We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.  Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106 if you are able to do so.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

The COVID risks for Caddo, Bossier and De Soto Parishes (the Shreveport metro area) are all low — the CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in “low” risk areas.

See the CDC website and the COVIDActNow website for more details.

Starting on 13 November 2022, masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.

Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.

We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.

We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms, and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.

Please use this link to evaluate the current COVID risk for the Shreveport-Bossier City metro area as you make your decisions regarding masking and other COVID preventive measures while attending All Souls.

We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.

However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.

Please use good judgment and stay home if you have any symptoms.  Even those who have tested negative for COVID can later test positive.

Our May 2024 give-away-the-plate recipient is the Shreveport Chapter of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East.

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

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Poetry Reading and Book Discussion Event (26 May 2024)

Please join us on Sunday (26 May 2024) at 3:00 PM for a poetry reading and book discussion event sponsored by the Shreveport Chapter of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East.

This event will be happening in person at All Souls and on Zoom.

We will be reading and discussing Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by the  Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha.

Join us for readings of poems from this author and other Palestinian poets along with a discussion of the book facilitated by Robert Brown.

If you need a copy of the book, you can pick one up Sunday right after church, or Saturday between noon and 6:00 PM.

You can also text Susan Caldwell to arrange to picking up a copy of this book.

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All Ages Worship (5 May 2024)

Please join us this Sunday (5 May 2024) at 11:00 AM for “All Things Green and Sticky:  Nature’s Lessons on Passive Resistance” by Bennett Upton.

Nature can be an incredible teacher if we are paying attention. All Souls member and former All Souls Board President Bennett Upton is in the pulpit this Sunday.  Please join us.

We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.  Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106 if you are able to do so.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

The COVID risks for Caddo, Bossier and De Soto Parishes (the Shreveport metro area) are all low — the CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in “low” risk areas.

See the CDC website and the COVIDActNow website for more details.

Starting on 13 November 2022, masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.

Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.

We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.

We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms, and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.

Please use this link to evaluate the current COVID risk for the Shreveport-Bossier City metro area as you make your decisions regarding masking and other COVID preventive measures while attending All Souls.

We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.

However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.

Please use good judgment and stay home if you have any symptoms.  Even those who have tested negative for COVID can later test positive.

Our May 2024 give-away-the-plate recipient is the Shreveport Chapter of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East.

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

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Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (Shreveport Chapter) — May 2024 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.

For the month of May 2024, we choose the Shreveport Chapter of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME).

We are varying our give away the plate routine slightly this month in that the Shreveport Chapter of UUJME is a local chapter of a national Unitarian Universalist organization which is affiliated with All Souls.

However, the Shreveport Chapter of UUJME includes members from the wider community (Muslims, Christians, Jews, and people with no faith affiliation).

Given the current world situation, we feel that the Shreveport Chapter of UUJME is a timely and appropriate choice for our May 2024 give away the plate program.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2024 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to UUJME Shreveport and then put “GATP MAY 2024” or “UUJME Shreveport” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of May 2024 will go to the Shreveport Chapter of UUJME.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “UUJME Shreveport” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to UUJME Shreveport.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to UUJME Shreveport, please put the amount you want going to UUJME Shreveport on the memo line.

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All Ages Worship (28 April 2024)

Please join us this Sunday (28 April 2024) at 11:00 AM for “Freed Between the Lines:  The Struggle to Save Books, History, and Libraries for All of Us” with Barbara Deger, Susan Caldwell, John Tuggle, and a special guest speaker.

We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.  Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106 if you are able to do so.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

As school districts across our nation pass book bans and legislatures pass increasingly draconian censorship laws, we take a look at the importance of books that have shaped our own lives and the horrors that arise from depriving our society of a diversity of ideas.

We will follow the service with an opportunity to write letters to our legislators opposing some particularly egregious library bills coming up in the Louisiana Legislature this week.

The COVID risks for Caddo, Bossier and De Soto Parishes (the Shreveport metro area) are all low — the CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in “low” risk areas.

See the CDC website and the COVIDActNow website for more details.

Starting on 13 November 2022, masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.

Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.

We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.

We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms, and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.

Please use this link to evaluate the current COVID risk for the Shreveport-Bossier City metro area as you make your decisions regarding masking and other COVID preventive measures while attending All Souls.

We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.

However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.

Please use good judgment and stay home if you have any symptoms.  Even those who have tested negative for COVID can later test positive.

Our April 2024 give-away-the-plate recipient is Chimp Haven.

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

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41st Annual Louisiana Holocaust Remembrance Service (5 May 2024)

The 41st annual Louisiana Holocaust remembrance service will happen on Sunday (5 May 2024) at 3:00 PM in the LSU Shreveport Campus in the University Ballroom (click here for a LSU-Shreveport campus map and look for the University Center Building).

The guest speaker for this service will be award-winning author and Holocaust survivor Sonia Levitin.  The event chair is Dr. Kenna Franklin (LSU Shreveport Assistant Provost of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement).

Here is a flyer for this event.

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Pride in the Park (27 April 2024)

All Souls will be at Pride in the Park on Saturday (27 April 2024) from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Columbia Park in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Here’s how you can help:

  1. Come help us load in at 10:15 AM at the Gazebo Lot.
  2. Come help us staff the booth throughout the day — meet people, give out some Unitarian Universalist swag, and enjoy the day!
  3. Come help us with breakdown and cleanup at 3:00 PM.

It should be a fun day for all ages — featuring arts and crafts for the kids, a great variety of food trucks, many different organizations supporting the LGBTQ community, and music from DJ J Mizzle.

Please join us!

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Jerusalem Youth Chorus Livestream Watch Party (14 April 2024)

Please join us on Sunday afternoon (14 April 2024) at 3:00 PM for a Jerusalem Youth Chorus livestream performance watch party.

Join us in the social hall as we gather in community to hear the Jerusalem Youth Chorus (an Israeli-Palestinian music and dialogue project dedicated to singing a different song and raising their voices in opposition to violence, occupation, and terror in support of peace, justice, inclusion, and equality).

Register just to help us plan (but it’s also OK just to show up).

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Bake Sale for UNRWA

This Sunday after the 11:00 AM worship service, we are having a bake sale to benefit United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East — especially providing much-needed relief for the people of Gaza.

You will find delicious baked goods in exchange for your worthy donation, to benefit the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

You can help by baking, by donating something you buy from a nice bakery, or by buying and eating (a tasty form of social justice work).

This bake sale is being organized by Jennifer Russell, Eva Peck, and the members of the Shreveport Chapter of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East.

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