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
We are moving our regular Building and Grounds Day to Saturday (17 October 2015) to accommodate today’s wedding.
However, if you yearn to do some Grounds work today (Saturday, 10 October 2015) … Bayla Lanham, his Dad, and some of the other Boy Scouts will be out working on the nature trail this morning starting around 9:00 AM.
Today’s work will be outside only (to be respectful of the wedding party preparations).
Please join us on Sunday (4 October 2015) at 11:00 AM for our annual “Blessing of the Animals” worship service presented by Susan Bettinger and friends (two-legged, four-legged and others)
Bring all the family this time right into the sanctuary and join us for this celebration of our nonhuman companions who occupy the interdependent web with us.
Please bring your pet on a leash or in a carrier as even the most docile of pets can behave unpredictably in new situations.
If you have no current pet or your cats have told you they are plenty blessed already, please feel free to bring a photo or stuffed animal.
This will be an all-ages worship service (no children and youth religious education classes).
Please join us on Sunday (27 September 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Blessed is the Flame” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Our Jewish friends have just completed the celebration of the High Holy Days — a time of atonement, release, and beginning again in love.
In that spirit, we join together in a ritual of release and a celebration of new beginnings. 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.
A newcomer information session will take place after this service.
Next Sunday (4 October 2015) — our annual Blessing of the Animals service.
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.
The Building and Grounds Work Day — usually scheduled for the second Saturday of the month — is on the third Saturday for September 2015 only.
We will be working from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM on Saturday (19 September 2015).
Tasks available inside and out for all ages and ability levels.
Come for the whole time, or just for an hour.
If you don’t even have that much time, consider dropping off some snacks for the crew.
Please join us this Sunday (13 September 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Seekers’ Sanctuary — A Homecoming Service” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
This will be a service to welcome everyone home to All Souls for the new church year — whether you’ve been away for years, weeks, or just since last Sunday.
We will honor those members of 25 years or longer, and ingather our new members. The All Souls Choir will sing.
A Potluck Lunch will take place in the Social Hall immediately following the service. Please bring a dish to share and join us, or join us without a dish to share.
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.
The new date is for the September 2015 building and grounds work day is next Saturday (19 September 2015) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
We have decided to reschedule the work day for next Saturday so as not to interfere with preparations for a memorial service.
Tasks available inside and out for all ages and ability levels.
Please join us on Sunday (6 September 2015) at 11:00 AM for “The Language of Hope” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. The All Souls Choir will sing at this service.
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 (23 August 2015) at 11:00 AM for “When in Doubt: Challenging the Calculus of Certainty” by Claudia Harris. We will have music from the All Souls Choir.
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.