Past Services
2024-25
February 2025
Weekly Worship Service
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Join us for weekly worship this Sunday (and every week)! We meet in person in the heart of our nation’s capital and online using Zoom. We look forward to seeing you!
Rev. Viola Abbitt: Selfish and Selfless
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
When we think about these two words, we often think about them in absolute terms and as being either positive or negative, depending on context. Is there a way that we can think of selflessness and selfishness and how they might show up in our lives in ways that honor community and our Unitarian Universalist principles and values?
Rev. Anastassia Zinke: Before All
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Anastassia ZinkeDevelopmental Minister
In the Bible, the woman, Rizpah, suffers great loss as a result of political violence. While broken, she remained unbowed in her commitment to human dignity. Her acts ultimately bent the arc of events towards justice and compassion. Where do we find such modern day “Rizpahs”?
January 2025
Rev. Patrice K. Curtis: The One Constant
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Patrice K. CurtisGuest Preacher
The Reverend Patrice K. Curtis, UUA Transformational Interim Ministries Director. Patrice trains and supports interim, developmental, and transitions contract ministers. Before their ministry at the UUA, Rev. Patrice served three congregations (including All Souls, as Minister of Social Justice and Membership in 2014-2015), Church of the Larger Fellowship, and the UU Justice Ministry of California. Before ministry, they served on several non-profit boards; taught marketing research to entrepreneurs in San Francisco; worked for USAID as program manager, and the Congressional Research Service as a foreign affairs analyst.
The quantum world is in constant motion, just as the arc of time shows us that our lives are constantly evolving. How can we welcome change so we continue flourishing?
Rev. Rob Keithan: Turning Fear into Fuel
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Rob KeithanMinister of Spiritual Growth and Justice
It’s understandable to feel anxious and concerned–the challenges facing our world are certainly real. At the same time, our actions must be grounded in positive values in order to be effective and sustainable. How can we deal honestly with the current reality while also creating a new one?
Rev. Anastassia Zinke: Wheel of Life
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Anastassia ZinkeDevelopmental Minister
During this service we will honor the transitions and celebrations in the lives of our members through poetry and naming. Help us mark family births and adoptions, bridging into adulthood, new members, member departures, weddings, and deaths.
Rev. Anastassia Zinke: Come, Yet Again, Come to Your Place of Welcome
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Anastassia ZinkeDevelopmental Minister
All of us have experienced moments or periods of loneliness, pain, or loss. We also know, therefore, the wonder and power of being truly welcomed. Part of our purpose of being a community at All Souls is to welcome each other, sometimes in small ways and sometimes in large ways. Come be welcomed, and hear Rev. Anastassia share how we can welcome again and again.
December 2024
Ebony Peace: A Spirit of Helpfulness and Sacrifice
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Ebony PeaceGuest Preacher
The spirit of Unitarian Universalism is helpfulness and sacrifice. How is helpfulness and sacrifice a reflection of our faith? Let us explore the history of our theological spirit and what our flaming chalice symbolizes for us today.
Rev. Anastassia Zinke: Christmas Eve – Late Service
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Anastassia ZinkeDevelopmental Minister
This candlelight service features the All Souls Choir and Sophia Morreale on pipe organ.
Rev. Anastassia Zinke: Christmas Eve – Family Service
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Anastassia ZinkeDevelopmental Minister
This candlelight service features the All Souls Junior Choir.
Rev. Rob Keithan: We’ve Never Done Anything “Before”
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Rob KeithanMinister of Spiritual Growth and Justice
Humans are creatures of habit, so it’s easy for us to think about all the things we’ve done before. We’ve brushed our teeth many times before. We’ve come to church many times before. And yet, every new day is the first time this day has existed. So anything we’re doing today is really happening for the first time ever! The service will reflect on how newness can be both a challenge and a comfort.
Christmas Pageant
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Join in this family-oriented, candlelight service, as we bring the Christmas story to life through our Christmas pageant. Everyone will have a chance to participate through song, movement, and even enacting a character from the Jesus-birth narrative. We will bless each other by passing the light of our flaming candles as the service closes. With Rev. Anastassia, John Murphy, Sandy Reiberg, Sarah Cannon, Alex Milligan, and you!