All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church :: Kansas City

Sunday Services

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That's a Family! Multi-generational service - Carolyn MacDonald

July 6 - 11:15 a.m.

We celebrate the rich diversity of different kinds of families. The service will include a screening of the video That's a Family! which features children from more than 50 diverse families. School-age children will attend with their families.

The Female Face of God - Ally Kateusz and Bonnie Rosen -Cowherd

July 13 -11:15a.m

Whether or not our childhood spiritual community was Judeo-Christian, many of us carry some subconscious artifacts from our dominant Christian culture, including its portrayal and naming of God as male. Early Christian art, however, told an additional story – a story of the Female Face of God. This service includes remarkable, beautiful visuals of that early art.
Bonnie Rosen-Cowherd is director of Divine Balance, a not-for-profit organization that provides opportunities to experience the Female Face of God in early historical Christianity. Ally Kateusz has spent the last five years researching and photographing early Christian art around the Mediterranean. When we feel comfortable in both our masculine and feminine energies, we live in balance and are the most effective advocates for justice.

“The Observatory in the Fog” - Charlotte Shivvers

July 20 - 11:15 a.m.
“Years ago my husband and I were driving west of Denver on Interstate 70. Blinded by rain and fog, we escaped the freeway to a restaurant called “The Observatory.” This glass-walled café was fully equipped with telescopes – and all we could see was fog. Come join the search as I stumble toward meaning in this tantalizing irony.”
Rev. Shivvers was interim minister here 1998-99. A member of our church in Des Moines, she’s Minister Emerita of the Sepulveda UU Society in Los Angeles. Now retired, she and her husband, Bob Baker, live in Iowa on the farm where she was born. Though she attempts to be a “minister of farmland ecology,” she still loves Kansas City.”

Banner Images, what makes a community? - Diane Cassity and Chloe Mason Seagrove

July 27 - 11:15
The All Souls Banner, created to represent All Souls at the 2007 General Assembly represents the creativity, artistry and dedication of our All Souls community. More than 100 people worked on the banner over a six week period of time. This service will celebrate the story of the creation of the banner and what those words and phrases meant to the needle artists who created them. The story will be told in the words of the people who helped create the banner and in pictures.