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
Please join us on Sunday (7 September 2014) at 11:00 AM for “To Be Religious Liberals in a Trying State. Rev. Barbara Jarrell is back in the pulpit this morning and the All Souls choir will sing.
Weeks like this past one can make the road seem longer and rockier. Let us gather for companionship and new energy for the journey.
Children and youth will be in the service for the first 15-20 minutes and then go to their Religious Education classes.
Please join us on Sunday (31 August 2014) at 11:00 AM for our Sunday Worship — “Prophetic Witness: Two Portraits.”
All Souls members Richard Denton and Steve Caldwell will speak on men from our Unitarian, Universalist, or Unitarian Universalist history who have inspired or influenced their own faith journeys.
Children and youth will be in the service for the first 15-20 minutes and then go to their Religious Education classes.
Please join us on Sunday (24 August 2014) at 11:00 AM for our worship service and religious education classes for children and youth.
The sermon will be “AVP and You” by Robert Jordan PhD and Kathryn Osuch LPC LMFT.
All Souls members Kathy Osuch and Bob Jordan are trained facilitators in the Alternatives to Violence Project — a program that has transformed lives in schools, churches, prisons, and wherever the workshops have been offered. They hope to offer the workshops again at All Souls in the near future and — considering recent events both far and near — the experience will be a timely one for all of us.
Children and youth will be in the service for the first 15-20 minutes and then go to their Religious Education classes.
Please join us on Sunday (17 August 2014) at 10:30 AM for “Is the Flow Downhill?” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
This is our annual “Water Communion” worship service — an annual tradition in ours and many other Unitarian Universalist congregations.
Water Communion allows us an opportunity to reunite after the summer and tell each other something of our experiences as we bring a small gift of water (whether from the source of our experience or symbolically so) and to blend our waters as we blend our stories.
This is not just a travelogue. The water might be from Tanganyika, or it might be from the tap in your new apartment or a puddle where you watched tadpoles with a small child.
The water is added to water from previous Water Communions, then boiled, filtered and frozen to be saved for rituals involving water such as child dedications, and of course, future water communions.
Join us after the service for the Swim Party at the home of Laurie Lyons and Henry Walker.
Next Sunday (24 August 2014) — big changes for our Sunday morning schedule.
Worship will start at 11:00 AM. On most Sundays, children and youth will stay in worship for the first 15 to 20 minutes before departing to their religious education classes.
On selected Sundays, we will have all-ages worship where the children and youth remain in the service. When we have all-ages worship, there will be no religious education classes for children and youth.
Adult religious education classes will start back in the Fall after Labor Day — please check our website announcements for these details as they become available.
Please join us on Sunday (10 August 2014) at 10:30 AM for “When Love is Not the Message Received” by Susan Caldwell (All Souls Director of Religious Education).
We speak often of “Standing on the Side of Love,” but how do we do that when our faith is challenged and called into question — sometimes quite harshly — by those with no interest in a civil dialogue on spiritual matters?
Models abound to teach us, whether we look to our contemporaries in New Orleans, to the prophetic women and men who have come before us, or to the firm foundation of our Living Tradition, a theology grounded in love and hope.
Mystery of the 3D Hand Revealed this Sunday
Children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service before we sing them out to their summer activities.
As Unitarian Universalists, we look to our own Direct Experience of Mystery and Wonder as a lens for exploring the world around us and our own spiritual nature.
This Sunday, we reaffirm that Mystery and Wonder are no farther away than our very own hands, and that even the closest, most familiar things we see are not always what they seem. Alice, Neill and Samantha Normand will be with the children and youth again this morning.
Please join us on Sunday (3 August 2014) at 10:30 AM for “Gifts of the Elders” by Pamela Carlisle with Worship Associate Sarah Boswell.
Information is not wisdom and often — in this “information age” — we are in danger of losing the wisdom of those who may feel left out by current prevailing modes of communication.
Zentangles in the Religious Education Wing
Children and youth will attend the first 15 to 20 minutes of the worship service before we sing them out to their summer activities.
On this Sunday they’ll be trying their hands at an art form known as Zentangles with Alice and Neill Normand.
It can be as simple or as complex as they like, and it works for a variety of ages. For the artists who are willing, we’ll display the finished products in the Social Hall.
If you have some empty cereal boxes or other thin cardboard boxes in your recycling bin (Ritz Cracker boxes would work great too), bring them, although we will try and have some on hand.
Please join us on Sunday (27 July 2014) at 10:30 AM Sunday Worship — “The Modern Mantra, Part II” by Ron Hagar
Ron Hagar presides over Part II of this participatory worship experience exploring the definition and purpose of a mantra and the idea of creating one’s own mantra.
This week, we will delve more deeply into the topic and feature congregational sharing of personal mantras as participants are willing and time allows.
Children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service before we sing them out to their summer activities. On this Sunday, they will be making their own variations on these two shirts:
They need to bring a black or dark-colored t-shirt for the project. We will have a few extras on hand, available for a donation if they need one, but as with tie-dye a few weeks ago, bringing their own guarantees the fit and style they’ll prefer.
Please joins us on Sunday (20 July 2014) for our 10:30 AM worship and religious education time.
“The Modern Mantra, Part I” by Ron Hagar — Ron Hagar is back and presiding over, not one but two worship services on this Sunday and the following Sunday (27 July 2014).
Part I of this participatory worship experience will explore the definition and purpose of a mantra and the idea of creating one’s own mantra.
Next week, Part II will delve more deeply into the topic and feature congregational sharing of personal mantras as participants are willing and time allows.
Community Building Games — In the Religious Education Wing, Steve Caldwell will lead the children and youth in some fun community-building games. The children and youth will join us in the sanctuary for the first 15-20 minutes and then we will sing them out to their activities.
Please join us on Sunday (13 July 2014) at 10:30 AM for our all-ages worship service — “Old Turtle and the Broken Truth”
“In a time when every stone is a teacher and every tree is a ladder to the stars, the people live in peace.”
Then the people discover a powerful truth that brings them strength and happiness, but they cannot see that their truth is broken and incomplete, and they suffer needlessly. Can a child help Old Turtle to remind them of the Truth they have lost?
Join John Allen, Megan Bennett, Phil Boswell, and Sarah Allen for this dramatic presentation of the inspiring story by Douglas Wood featuring the beautiful watercolor illustrations of Jon J. Muth.