Category: Worship

Please join us on Sunday (30 October 2016) at 11:00 AM for “Companions for the Journey” with John Allen, Jocelyn Lanham, and Tyrus Mulkey.

Three of our members share the spiritual journeys that have brought them to All Souls, and the reasons they have stayed.

Come and hear the varied and compelling stories of John Allen, Jocelyn Lanham, and Tyrus Mulkey — get to know three of your fellow congregants just a little better.

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 (23 October 2016) at 11:00 AM for “Love is the Doctrine of This Church —  A Service in Celebration of our Unitarian Universalist History and Identity” presented by the children, youth, and adults of All Souls.

Taking the first three lines of the Unison Affirmation as our theme, we celebrate our loving and inclusive message, our free and responsible search for truth, and our dedication to “walking our talk” in service and activism, throughout history and in the present day.

Please join us on Sunday (2 October 2016) at 11:00 AM for our annual “Blessing of the Animals” worship service.

“Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to animals and so to share the blessings of the merciful.” – Albert Schweitzer

Our annual tribute to the companions who share our home in the interdependent web of all existence.

Today they join us for worship in the sanctuary and it’s OK if some of them decide to sing along with the hymns.

Please bring your pet either on a leash or confined in a carrier.  Even the most docile animals can behave unpredictably in strange circumstances.

If you do not currently have a pet or yours is not ready for prime time, please feel free to bring a picture or a stuffed animal to be blessed.

This service is intergenerational — the children and youth remain with us and our pets in the sanctuary for the entire service.

We will still provide nursery care for infants and toddlers 3 and under.

Please join us on Sunday (25 September 2016) at 11:00 AM for “No Greater Love” by Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith.

What are we willing to sacrifice for the well-being of our loved ones?  What about for people we don’t even know, but for whom we feel deep empathy?

Today, we explore the nature of risk and human caring as we remember those in our faith who defied evil though their lives were in danger.

Rev. Smith is a Congregational Life Staff for the Southern Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association and is the primary contact for UU congregations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Pensacola, Florida.

He lives in the Memphis area and has been an ordained UU minister for 21 years.

Before returning to the Southeast, Rev. Smith served congregations in the Northeast Corridor and in the San Francisco area.

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.