Please join us next Wednesday (5 August 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there!
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online on Saturday night (1 August 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 26 July 2020 worship video here.
Please join us on Sunday (26 July 2020) at 11:00 AM for “A Living Tradition?” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
It’s a living tradition only if we keep living into it!
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
This service will also feature the music of Michael Futreal and Twang Darkly.
We will have a virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Religious education for children and youth is taking a break for a few weeks and will return on Zoom (with a surprise) on 16 August 2020.
Meanwhile, we will still post ideas and projects for you to do at home and stay in touch via the All Souls Religious Education Group on Facebook.
Parents — email Susan Caldwell if you are not a member of the religious education group on Facebook.
We can still use your art work illustrating our principles and sources.
You can post it on the All Souls Religious Education page on Facebook or email it to Susan Caldwell.
We can use more illustrations of the third and fourth principles and — of course — the eighth principle too:
Please join us on Sunday (19 July 2020) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We will be continuing Faith Forward: Spiritual Practice with “Life as Spiritual Practice.”
In the last session of this series, we will explore the idea of pilgrimage as a spiritual journey to a sacred place, as practiced in other faiths and our own.
We’ll think about where we might want to make a pilgrimage of our own some day — whether near or far — or share experiences of pilgrimages we may have already made.
As we wrap up the series, we’ll also examine the idea of living a life of intentionality, and the ways in which our faith calls us to do that.
Please join us next Wednesday (29 July 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there!
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 19 July 2020 worship video here.
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online on Saturday night (25 July 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 12 July 2020 worship video here.
Please join us for our 12 July 2020 Sunday worship at 11:00 AM for “Universalism in the Breach” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
We will have a virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us for our online religious education for children and youth this Sunday (12 July 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom at 1:00 PM after the virtual coffee hour is over.
The Zoom link for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
I look forward to seeing pictures of your peace and justice message stones, hear your stories of where you left them, and who you hope will get your messages.
And if you still haven’t painted your message stones, no worries — we will also be having a Seven Principles Scavenger Hunt in your house.
We can still use your art work illustrating our principles and sources.
You can post it on the All Souls Religious Education page on Facebook or send it to Susan at dre@allsoulsshreveport.org.
We can use more illustrations of the third and fourth principles and — of course — the eighth principle too:
Join us using the religious education Zoom link about 5 minutes after the worship service.
If you aren’t on Facebook, send Susan Caldwell an email or text her at 318-465-3427 to get into Zoom for online religious education class.
Any and all interested middle and high school youth are invited join a Zoom check-in next Sunday (12 July 2020) at 2:00 PM.
Join Noah Wagstaff and Susan Caldwell for a check-in with sharing of ideas on how you may want to stay connected this summer and beyond (and possibly a game or two).
If you have suggestions for games that have worked well on Zoom, let us know.
We hope to see you soon!
Please join us on Sunday (12 July 2020) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We will be continuing Faith Forward: Spiritual Practice with “Hospitality and Belonging as a Spiritual Practice”:
How do we make true hospitality a spiritual practice? And how — in the present moment — do we do that as a virtual community?
What would it mean to you to view hospitality and welcome as a spiritual practice? What would change in you? In our community?
Please join us next Wednesday (8 July 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there!
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 5 July 2020 worship video here.
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online on Saturday night (11 July 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
Please join us for our 5 July 2020 Sunday worship at 11:00 AM for the presentation of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award to Dr. Pamela McPherson.
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
We will have a virtual coffee hour reception after the service for Dr. McPherson on Zoom.
The Emerson Award is given annually by the congregation of All Souls to the individual or organization from the wider community who has exemplified the Principles and values of liberal religion.
Past recipients have included the late Sister Margaret McCaffrey, Rev. Lee Jeter of the Fuller Center for Housing, the Philadelphia Center, Frances Kelley, Lady Carlson of Together Louisiana, Brian Salvatore, and many others.
We are honored to announce that the 2020 Emerson award goes to child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Pamela McPherson for her role as a federal whistle-blower, revealing the conditions under which migrant children are held in detention at the border, and testifying before Congress on the deleterious effects on the children’s psychological and emotional well-being.
Ordinarily, we would have a reception, with cake and everything, for our honoree. So Dr. McPherson — we owe you cake — but in the meantime — we will have a virtual coffee hour via Zoom after the service.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
The online religious education Zoom class for children and youth will take a break this Sunday (5 July 2020) and will resume next Sunday (12 July 2020) after the 11:00 AM worship service.
Please join us on Sunday (5 July 2020) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We will be continuing Faith Forward: Spiritual Practice with “Hospitality and Belonging as a Spiritual Practice”:
How do we make true hospitality a spiritual practice? And how — in the present moment — do we do that as a virtual community?
What would it mean to you to view hospitality and welcome as a spiritual practice? What would change in you? In our community?
On Sunday (5 July 2020) at 1:30 PM, the Shreveport chapter of Louisiana Trans Advocates will meeting online via Zoom (information for this meeting can be found on the Shreveport LTA Facebook group).
The Shreveport chapter of Louisiana Trans Advocates (LTA) meets on the first Sunday of every month at 1:30 PM.
Before the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, Shreveport LTA would meet in the All Souls Social Hall.
Shreveport LTA is meeting online for the 5 July 2020 meeting in order to flatten the Coronavirus curve.
All transgender, non-binary, and gender-fluid individuals are welcome along their supportive family and friends.
This group provides social support as well as practical advice for people at all points on the spectrum of gender identity and sexual orientation.
Any and all interested middle and high school youth are invited join a Zoom check-in next Sunday (12 July 2020) at 2:00 PM.
Join Noah Wagstaff and Susan Caldwell for a check-in with sharing of ideas on how you may want to stay connected this summer and beyond (and possibly a game or two).
If you have suggestions for games that have worked well on Zoom, let us know.
We hope to see you soon!
Please join us next Wednesday (8 July 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there!
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 28 June 2020 worship video here.
The Great Decisions Group is not meeting online on Saturday night (4 July 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Their next meeting will be on Saturday (11 July 2020) at 6:00 PM
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
Please join us on Sunday (28 June 2020) at 11:00 AM for “Out of the Middle” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Rev Barbara has been at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly this week and is bringing back some thoughts to share.
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us for our online religious education for children and youth this Sunday (21 June 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom about 5 minutes after our worship service is over.
The Zoom link for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
I look forward to seeing pictures of your peace and justice message stones, hear your stories of where you left them, and who you hope will get your messages.
And if you still haven’t painted your message stones, no worries — we will also be having a Seven Principles Scavenger Hunt in your house.
We can still use your art work illustrating our principles and sources.
You can post it on the All Souls Religious Education page on Facebook or send it to Susan at dre@allsoulsshreveport.org.
We can use more illustrations of the third and fourth principles and — of course — the eighth principle too:
Join us using the religious education Zoom link about 5 minutes after the worship service.
If you aren’t on Facebook, send Susan Caldwell an email or text her at 318-465-3427 to get into Zoom for online religious education class.
There is no adult religious education class this Sunday morning (28 June 2020).
Instead, we have an opportunity to watch the UUA General Assembly 2020 Sunday Morning Worship at 9:00 AM CDT via livestream video.
The livestream video will be available at 9:00 AM CDT with a playback available at noon CDT if you decide to sleep in.
Our Sunday morning adult religious education class will resume next Sunday (5 July 2020) at 9:15 AM.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 21 June 2020 worship video here.
Please join us next Wednesday (1 July 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there!
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online on Saturday night (27 June 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
Please join us on Sunday (21 June 2020) at 11:00 AM for “A Celebration of Father’s Day” with Wealthia Jackson, Cole Loggins, and Robin Harris.
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us for our online religious education for children and youth this Sunday (21 June 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom about 5 minutes after our worship service is over.
The Zoom link for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
Summer is here and art kits really are headed your way on Saturday afternoon (20 June 2020) — this week’s summer project is Peace and Justice Stones.
You’ll get some paint suitable for outdoors (non-toxic but not washable so wear clothes that can be stained by paint), some brushes, and some black river rocks.
The art boxes also contain some markers and colored glue for later projects.
The idea is to paint messages of Hope, Love, Peace, and Justice on the rocks and leave them in places where others can find them. Then take a picture of your rocks in the spots where you’ve left them, and we’ll share those on our Sunday Zoom worship service.
If you haven’t had a chance yet to paint them, we can work on them together and share on the religious education Facebook group in the coming week or on next Sunday.
Please join us on Sunday (21 June 2020) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We will be continuing Faith Forward: Spiritual Practice with “Session 8 — Discernment and Devotional Reading (Lectio Divina).”
Discernment is the practice of listening to the “small, still voice” within. One way that we can practice discernment is with a kind of devotional reading that calls us to contemplate a particular passage and to break it open to find the message inside that speaks to us.
We will try this in our session with a short passage by Thomas Merton, and we will also think about how as Unitarian Universalists we might create our own lectionary (a cycle of readings that have meaning for us and call us to revisit them and contemplate how that meaning grows and changes with us).
Please join us next Wednesday (24 June 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there!
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online on Saturday night (20 June 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 14 June 2020 worship video here.
Please join us on Sunday (14 June 2020) at 11:00 AM for “Inequity is Our Iniquity” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
Our Second Principle calls us to affirm and promote “justice, equity, and compassion in human relations.”
How are we living into that?
Also click the picture to learn more about the ten books listed above which are a good start for your reading list if you are ready to work or want to learn more about dismantling racism and white supremacy culture.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us for our online religious education for children and youth this Sunday (14 June 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom about 5 minutes after our worship service is over.
The Zoom link for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
If you aren’t on Facebook, send Susan an email or text Susan at 318-465-3427 and she will send you the Zoom link for the session.
We are back this week to explore the 8th principle that has been proposed as an addition to the existing UU principles:
We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.
It’s a lot of words but we’ll take the time to take those words apart and find out what they really mean.
Please join us on Sunday (14 June 2020) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We will be continuing Faith Forward: Spiritual Practice with “Session 7 — Worship and Ritual.”
We’ll look at how we approach our weekly worship as a spiritual practice and how that might change in our current virtual setting.
We’ll also examine the role of ritual in our communal and individual lives.
The “New UU” adult religious education class will be meeting this Sunday (14 June 2020) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.
Bennett is once again offering this class for new and not-so-new members alike.
Bennett is once again offering this class for new and not-so-new members alike.
As a member of a congregation, the power within our faith tradition lies with you.
Today’s session explores the rights and responsibilities of holding that power.
If you’re interested, email Bennett and he will send you a link to join the class.
Please join us next Wednesday (17 June 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there!
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online on Saturday night (13 June 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 7 June 2020 worship video here.
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online on Saturday night (6 June 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 31 May 2020 worship video here.
Please join us next Wednesday (3 June 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there!
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online on Saturday night (30 May 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 24 May 2020 worship video here.
Please join us on Sunday (24 May 2020) at 11:00 AM for “Re-imagining” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Imagine the turns this service might take, and then join us to find out!
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
If you’re on Facebook, just enter All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church- Shreveport, Louisiana in the search bar and go to the All Souls Facebook page around 10:55 to join in.
Because the All Souls Facebook page is a public page, you should be able to see the worship service whether or not you have a Facebook account.
You do need a Facebook account to “like” and comment on the worship service.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us for our online religious education for children and youth this Sunday (24 May 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom about 5 minutes after our worship service is over.
The Zoom link for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
If you aren’t on Facebook, send Susan an email or text Susan at 318-465-3427 and she will send you the Zoom link for the session.
This Sunday — Imagination as a spiritual practice.
We can still use your art work illustrating our principles and sources (especially the 3rd and 4th principles):
You can post it on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group or email it to Susan.
Our annual spring congregational meeting will be conducted online via Zoom on Sunday (24 May 2020) at 1:00 PM
Agenda — Election of new Board members and new Committee on Ministry members.
New Board Members and terms are:
Current members remaining on the Board are Bennett Upton (President, June 2021), Rebecca Tuggle (Treasurer, June 2021), Ernie Cowger (At-Large, June 2021).
New Committee on Ministry Members and Terms are:
Current members remaining on the Committee on Ministry are Leigh Anne Chambers (June 2021), Jennifer Russell (June 2022), and Judy Cantil (June 2022)
Congregational meetings are open to all, though only active members of 30 days standing or longer can vote.
Please join us on Sunday (24 May 2020) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We will be sting Faith Forward: Spiritual Practice with “Session 4 — Prayer.”
This is a re-attempt at last week’s class that was cancelled due to an unscheduled Zoom videoconferencing outage.
We will explore questions like “what is prayer?” and “what is prayer for you?”
The first question may have several definitions in the dictionary but the second one is very much your own.
I am including this passage from Anne Lamott as a way of reassuring you that all are included in this session regardless of one’s relationship to a higher power or lack thereof:
You may in fact be wondering what I even mean when I use the word “prayer.” It is communication from the heart to that which surpasses understanding. Let’s say it is communication from one’s heart to God. Or if that is too triggering or ludicrous a concept for you, to the Good, the force that is beyond our comprehension but that in our pain or supplication or relief we don’t need to define or have proof of or any established contact with. Let’s say it is what the Greeks called the Really Real, what lies within us, beyond the scrim of our values, positions, convictions, and wounds. Or let’s say it is a cry from deep within to Life or Love, with capital L’s.
So let’s say it is any and all of those things plus whatever it is for you.
And if it’s nothing for you, we want to talk about that too.
See you on Sunday.
The New UU will not meet this Sunday (24 May 2020) because of the congregational meeting.
This class will resume next Sunday (31 May 2020) at 1:00 PM via Zoom — Bennett Upton, Facilitator.
Please join us next Wednesday (27 May 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there!
Our Tuesday Discussion Group meets every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM.
Contact Kathy Osuch for the Zoom info for this group.
This group was formerly known as TED Talks Group (who were formerly known as Great Questions, who were formerly known as Eastern Religions Discussion Group), meeting Tuesday nights at different locations to discuss issues chosen by the group.
Email Kathy Osuch or call her at 318-658-1107 for more information.
On Saturday (23 May 2020) at 10:00 AM CDT (Shreveport local time), we will have a drive-in memorial service to honor the life of Betty Gorey Parent.
The memorial service will happen in the parking lot of All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church (9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA)
The service will be broadcast locally in the parking lot to the FM radio into your car (87.9 MHz).
The memorial service will also be a livestream video on the All Souls Facebook page.
We will gather — in physical and virtual space — to celebrate the life of Betty Gorey Parent.
In our efforts to do our best to honor her wishes in an event that is safe for all concerned, we are asking attendees to observe these essential COVID-19 safety precautions:
Thank you for your cooperation as we celebrate this one-of-a-kind woman in this first-of-its-kind service at All Souls!
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online on Saturday night (16 May 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 17 May 2020 worship video here.
Please join us next Wednesday (20 May 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there!
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online tonight (Saturday, 16 May 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
Our annual spring congregational meeting will be conducted online via Zoom on Sunday (24 May 2020).
Agenda — Election of new Board members
Congregational meetings are open to all though only active members of 30 days standing or longer can vote.
Watch your email for time of day, Zoom link, and additional details.
Bennett Upton (All Souls Board President) has designed surveys to determine how you are faring through the current COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and what kind of help you might need or might be able to give.
We also want to know what kind of online programming you would find most helpful to keep you connected to your church community even when we can’t be together in the same room.
Please take just a few minutes to fill out these surveys and help us shape a strong and resilient congregation for the days to come.
Feel free to share these survey links with people that you feel might be interested as church membership is not a requirement for participation in these surveys.
We welcome the inputs from anyone who participates in the All Souls community.
Due to the recent COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic and the restrictions limiting us from having worship in face-to-face settings, we need to find another ways to keep everything happening at All Souls.
If you want to donate to All Souls, you can click on the link provided to our secure donations server.
On this site, there are four options for your donation:
Pick the desired options for your donation. Your donation can be a one-time donation or a recurring donation (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or yearly).
Note: If you give online, be sure to include your name in your entry. Several of our pledges are showing up anonymously. If you wish to remain anonymous, thank you for your generosity and we will certainly honor that. But if you want credit on your All Souls pledge statement, be sure you are filling in the space that says “Name on Card.”
If the name on the card is different from the pledging member, please specify the name on the pledge account in the Comments section and again — thank you!
If you want to send a check, please mail your check to:
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
9449 Ellerbe Road
Shreveport LA 71106
Please indicate on the memo line of your check if your check is for the 2020 pledge campaign, the capital fund drive, the collection plate, or the general fund.
Thanks for your continued support during these challenging times.
Please join us on Sunday (10 May 2020) at 11:00 AM for “Celebrating Mother’s Day” — A service in celebration of Mother’s Day featuring All Souls members James Peck, Pamela Carlisle, and John Allen.
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
If you’re on Facebook, just enter All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church- Shreveport, Louisiana in the search bar and go to the All Souls Facebook page around 10:55 to join in.
Because the All Souls Facebook page is a public page, you should be able to see the worship service whether or not you have a Facebook account.
You do need a Facebook account to “like” and comment on the worship service.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us for our online religious education for children and youth this Sunday (10 May 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom about 5 minutes after our worship service is over.
The Zoom link for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
This Sunday — We’ll talk about the ways we settle our spirits when we are afraid, angry, or upset.
We will take some time to think of ways to thank the Moms and other important grownups in our lives who help us to do that.
We can still use your art work illustrating our principles and sources (especially the 3rd and 4th principles):
You can post it on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group or email it to Susan.
Please join us on Sunday (3 May 2020) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We will be starting Faith Forward: Spiritual Practice with “Session 3 — Keeping Sabbath.”
This morning we’ll explore the idea of Sabbath time, what that means to each of us, and how we carve it out of our days, now and as we begin to transition to a new normal.
As we enter our focus on personal spiritual growth and development, we’ll look at this program (developed by First Unitarian Church of Dallas, Texas) where members are asked to commit to a daily spiritual practice, monthly communal worship, an annual retreat, and at least one once-in-a-lifetime experience of pilgrimage (not necessarily a geographic pigrimage).
The second session will include an experience of meditation as well as a look at the difference between spiritual exploration and spiritual discipline (both of which are important to a spiritual life).
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 3 May 2020 worship video here.
The “New UU” adult religious education class will be resuming this Sunday (10 May 2020) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.
Bennett is once again offering this class for new and not-so-new members alike.
This week’s topic is “Social Justice Philosophy and Practice”
This is a great opportunity to learn more about the history, theology, and polity of Unitarian Universalism , as well as the history and unique character of our own congregation.
If you’re interested, email Bennett and he will send you a link to join the class.
Please join our ongoing series of classes — “What We Choose: Ethics for Unitarian Universalists” facilitated by Bennett Upton (All Souls Board President).
This class will happen at 12:00 Noon every Saturday beginning 9 May 2020.
Check Slack or email Bennett for the Zoom link information to join this class.
This course from UU authors Amber Beland and Manish Mishra-Marzetti offers an intentional process of engagement with others in examining ethical concepts, dilemmas, and questions to help us clarify and expand our ethical understanding.
Participants examine how they have arrived at ethical positions that they hold dear.
They explore new perspectives, identify areas for further questions and exploration, and perhaps more fully embrace ethical positions they reach through careful discernment.
This program will deepen and expand participants’ knowledge and skills for a process of ethical reflection that is central to living our Unitarian Universalist faith.
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online tonight (Saturday, 9 May 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
Please join us next Wednesday (13 May 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there!
Please join us on Sunday (3 May 2020) at 11:00 AM for “In Between: Liminal Time and Space — The Stress of Limbo and Thresholds” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Continuing our season of focus on personal spiritual frowth and development, we explore this time and space between and what it can mean to our spiritual lives — individually and collectively.
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
If you’re on Facebook, just enter All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church- Shreveport, Louisiana in the search bar and go to the All Souls Facebook page around 10:55 to join in.
Because the All Souls Facebook page is a public page, you should be able to see the worship service whether or not you have a Facebook account.
You do need a Facebook account to “like” and comment on the worship service.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us for our online religious education for children and youth this Sunday (3 May 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom about 5 minutes after our worship service is over.
The Zoom link for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
This Sunday — We’ll take some time to think about our fourth Principle (the free and responsible search for truth and meaning).
Perhaps your family has been taking this time to go through things in your house and think about what you still use and what is no longer useful and could be donated to someone else.
Sometimes it’s good to do that with our own beliefs and opinions as well … to examine carefully some of the things we’ve taken for granted and see if they still hold true for us.
We might find out in the process that things are not always what they seem!
We’ll also explore our first source (Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life).
Please join us on Sunday (3 May 2020) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
We will be starting Faith Forward: Spiritual Practice with “Session 2 — Finding Your Spiritual Practice.”
As we enter our focus on personal spiritual growth and development, we’ll look at this program (developed by First Unitarian Church of Dallas, Texas) where members are asked to commit to a daily spiritual practice, monthly communal worship, an annual retreat, and at least one once-in-a-lifetime experience of pilgrimage (not necessarily a geographic pigrimage).
The second session will include an experience of meditation as well as a look at the difference between spiritual exploration and spiritual discipline (both of which are important to a spiritual life).
The “New UU” adult religious education class will be resuming this Sunday (3 May 2020) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.
Bennett is once again offering this class for new and not-so-new members alike.
This week’s topic is “How We Grow in Faith — Philosophy of Religious Education.”
This is a great opportunity to learn more about the history, theology, and polity of Unitarian Universalism , as well as the history and unique character of our own congregation.
If you’re interested, email Bennett and he will send you a link to join the class.
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online tonight (Saturday, 2 May 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
The program provides background information and policy options for the eight most critical issues facing America each year and serves as the focal text for discussion groups across the country.
Melodie Armstrong has started a group in our community through All Souls.
They have already started meeting but they welcome new participants to join them.
Please join us next Wednesday (6 May 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there!
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 19 April 2020 worship video here.
Please join us on Sunday (19 April 2020) at 11:00 AM for “Coming Back Thoughtfully: Reflections on Earth Day” — a collaborative service presented by children, youth, and adult representatives of All Souls.
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
If you’re on Facebook, just enter All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church- Shreveport, Louisiana in the search bar and go to the All Souls Facebook page around 10:55 to join in.
Because the All Souls Facebook page is a public page, you should be able to see the worship service whether or not you have a Facebook account.
You do need a Facebook account to “like” and comment on the worship service.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us for our online religious education for children and this Sunday (19 April 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom about 5 minutes after our worship service is over.
The Zoom link for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
This Sunday — We will look at the ways we can care for the Earth in our daily lives, how we can talk with our leaders about changes that need to be made, and how all of that fits in with our Unitarian Universalist principles.
If you aren’t on Facebook, send me an email or text me at 318-465-3427 and I’ll see that you get onto Zoom for the session.
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online tonight (Saturday, 18 April 2020) at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
The program provides background information and policy options for the eight most critical issues facing America each year and serves as the focal text for discussion groups across the country.
Melodie Armstrong has started a group in our community through All Souls.
They have already started meeting but they welcome new participants to join them.
Please join us on Sunday (19 April 2020) at 9:15 AM for our online adult religious education class — “Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution, Part II” with facilitator Susan Caldwell
We will be meeting online via Zoom using this link.
This is a 2018 documentary exploring the life of Peter Kalmus PhD — climate scientist, father of two, and Zen Buddhist — on the personal changes he and his family have made in the ongoing struggle against climate change.
If you are a member of All Souls, you should have already received an email announcement a Special Virtual Congregational Meeting lasting through Sunday (19 April 2020) at 3:00 PM.
On the Agenda:
Application for a small business loan through the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) for the purpose of paying our employees through the time that COVID-19 (Coronavirus) restrictions are in place.
Check your email for a form which will allow you to vote for or against this loan application.
You may vote upon receipt of the form.
Or if you have questions, you may pose those questions at any time between now and 19 April 2020 using the church’s Slack channel using #board-agenda tag.
We will also hold a meeting via Zoom on Sunday (19 April 2020) at 1 PM where you may ask questions of the Board using Zoom (we will supply a link for this before the Zoom meeting).
The deadline for voting will be on Sunday (19 April 2020) at 3 PM.
Please join us next Wednesday (22 April 2020) at 12:00 Noon for an Earth Day Zoom Lunch. If you want to socialize with maintaining the COVID-19 curve-flattening distance, please join us
You can use this link to join your All Souls friends for lunch.
Bring your lunch, meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch (or don’t – it’s up to you), and just catch up.
That’s it.
Just a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
We’ll make this a weekly thing. We may decide in the future to bring in guest speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there.
The New UU class is cancelled this Sunday only (19 April 2020) for the special congregational meeting.
The New UU class should resume next Sunday (26 April 2020) at 1:00 PM via Zoom (email facilitator Bennett Upton for the class link).
If you want to socialize with maintaining the COVID-19 curve-flattening distance, please join us today for our weekly Zoom Lunch (Wednesday, 15 April 2020 at 12 noon).
You can use this link to join your All Souls friends for lunch.
Bring your lunch, meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch (or don’t – it’s up to you), and just catch up.
That’s it.
Just a chance to connect and catch up midweek.
We’ll make this a weekly thing. We may decide in the future to bring in guest speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.
Hope to see you there.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 12 April 2020 worship video here.
Please join us on Sunday (12 April 2020) at 11:00 AM for our Easter Sunday worship service “Is It Spring Yet?” with Rev. Barbara Jarrell and Friends.
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
Although we can’t be together in our church building, the church is everywhere we are and we will celebrate life rising up again.
If you’re on Facebook, just enter All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church- Shreveport, Louisiana in the search bar and go to the All Souls Facebook page around 10:55 to join in.
Because the All Souls Facebook page is a public page, you should be able to see the worship service whether or not you have a Facebook account.
You do need a Facebook account to “like” and comment on the worship service.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us for our online religious education for children and this Sunday (12 April 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom about 5 minutes after our worship service is over.
The Zoom link for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
This Sunday — Easter fun, including a virtual egg hunt throughout the worship service and during family religious education, and perhaps a few more surprises.
The Great Decisions Group meets online every Saturday at 6:00 PM.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.
The program provides background information and policy options for the eight most critical issues facing America each year and serves as the focal text for discussion groups across the country.
Melodie Armstrong has started a group in our community through All Souls.
They have already met twice but welcome new participants to join them.
Please join us online today (Sunday, 12 April 2020) at 3:00 PM for our weekly middle and high school check-in.
We will be meeting online using this Zoom link.
Our middle and high school youth will meet Sunday afternoon for an online check-in with Noah Wagstaff and Susan Caldwell.
We’ll see how everyone is doing, and also think about some other ideas for keeping the group connected online during this time.
We hope to see you Sunday afternoon.
Please watch your emails for notice of a Special Virtual Congregational Meeting beginning in the next few days and lasting through Sunday (19 April 2020) at 3 PM.
On the Agenda:
Application for a small business loan through the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) for the purpose of paying our employees through the time that COVID-19 (Coronavirus) restrictions are in place.
You will receive via email a form which will allow you to vote for or against this loan application.
You may vote upon receipt of the form.
Or if you have questions, you may pose those questions at any time between now and 19 April 2020 using the church’s Slack channel using #board-agenda tag.
We will also hold a meeting via Zoom on Sunday (19 April 2020) at 1 PM where you may ask questions of the Board using Zoom (we will supply a link for this before the Zoom meeting).
The deadline for voting will be on Sunday (19 April 2020) at 3 PM.
If you want to know more about Unitarian Universalism, “The New UU” class for adults begins this Sunday (12 April 2020) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.
All Souls Board President Bennett Upton will facilitate this class via Zoom.
If you’re interested, email Bennett and he will send you a link to join the class this Sunday.
Bennett is once again offering this class for new and not-so-new members alike.
This is a great opportunity to learn more about the history, theology, and polity of Unitarian Universalism along with the history and unique character of our own congregation.
Please join us on Sunday (12 April 2020) at 9:15 AM for our online adult religious education class “Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19 – Part 2” with facilitator Susan Caldwell (we will be meeting online via Zoom using this link).
We all need to stay in our homes to flatten the curve of the spreading COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and yet our activism is needed now more than ever.
We’ll look at updates from the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Amnesty International, the Poor People’s Campaign, and the Industrial Areas Foundation for ways to stay engaged even as we stay home.
And we’ll check in to see how everyone is doing this week.
Please note this is a new link for the adult religious education class.
Because of security concerns, Zoom is now requiring a meeting ID and password for meetings. If you are a regular (or even semi-regular) class participant, please use this link to join the adult religious education class.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.
This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.
For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live. One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.
You can find the 5 April 2020 worship video here.
Please join us online this Sunday (5 April 2020) at 11:00 AM for our online streaming worship service — “Reclaiming Our Stories” by Mollie Corbett.
The worship video will be available on the All Souls Facebook page (live streaming and recorded).
Mollie is the creator of “Outlier” — a unique multimedia arts installation and advocacy vehicle for survivors of sexual abuse and assault.
With the Outlier project, many victims have become survivors who have then become advocates for others like themselves.
We are proud to present “Reclaiming Our Stories” — a service dedicated to people who rise from the worst moments of their lives to step into their own power and help others step into theirs.
Because the church page is a public Facebook page, you will be able to see the worship service whether or not you have a Facebook account.
You do need log into your Facebook account to “like” and comment on the service.
A note for parents of younger children: Your family is still welcome to join us for worship. Mollie is also a parent and will be cognizant of a family audience. At the same time, if you are at all concerned about the topic, you’re welcome to join us for the first part of the service and wait to watch the recording of the sermon afterward.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us for our online religious education for children and this Sunday (5 April 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom about 5 minutes after our worship service is over.
The Zoom link for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
This Sunday: Every Person is Important and Valuable!
Last week, we talked about the importance of covenant in our faith and the fact that our seven principles are a covenant.
In the next seven weeks, we’ll look at each of those principles and the ways that we live them every day — even now — when we must “stick together by staying apart.”
This week — “the inherent worth and dignity of every person” — or in the words for younger people — “every person is important and valuable.”
What are some ways we practice that Principle, respect for the worth of every person, even when we can’t be together in the same place?
From week to week in the worship service, we’ll be using your art work to illustrate our principles and sources. You can post it on the All Souls Religious Education group on Facebook,or email your artwork to Susan Caldwell.
For this Sunday, think about:
Send Susan Caldwell a picture illustrating any of the principles or sources and we will see that it’s used in a worship service (if not this week then next week)
Join us on the new Zoom link about 5 minutes after the worship service.
NOTE: Zoom now requires a meeting ID and password. This information will be on the All Souls Shreveport Religious Education Group on Facebook.
If you’re on Facebook but haven’t asked to join the group yet, please do so.
If you aren’t on Facebook, send Susan Caldwell an email or text Susan at 318-465-3427 to join the children and youth on Zoom.
Please join us online today (Sunday, 5 April 2020) at 2:00 PM for our weekly middle and high school check-in.
We will be meeting online using this Zoom link.
Our middle and high school youth will meet Sunday afternoon for an online check-in with Noah Wagstaff and Susan Caldwell.
We’re trying this again, getting the word out a little more widely this time.
We’ll see how everyone is doing, and also think about some other ideas for keeping the group connected online during this time.
We hope to see you Sunday afternoon.
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