Past Services
2024
December 2024
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!
November 2024
Rev. Rob Keithan: Neigbors and How We Love Them
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Rob KeithanMinister of Social Justice
Even before the election happened, one of the strong themes emerging at All Souls is a renewed desire to make an impact in our immediate neighborhood. Our building is in the heart of Ward 1, which is both the most ethnically diverse and the most compact ward in the city. With the new administration coming in, fear has already increased significantly. How can we re-commit ourselves to loving our neighbors?
Rev. Anastassia Zinke: Love’s Way
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Anastassia ZinkeDevelopmental Minister
Those who have confronted injustice have had a direct view of evil, and the most transformative leaders have responded with love, and that love calls us to draw the circle wide. Let us consider how love is prompting us to show up.
Rev. Carol Thomas Cissel: What Do We Do Now?
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
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Rev. Carol Thomas CisselGuest Preacher
The campaigns are over. The votes have been cast. The results have been tallied. The US House of Representatives and the US Senate both have new members. And, in 71 days our new President-Elect will stand on the steps of the US Capitol to be sworn into office. Hmmm? What Do We Do Now? The World is watching. Our children are watching too. Let’s talk about making meaning, staying resilient and the next steps we’ll take as we move forward and claim our history.
Rev. Anastassia Zinke: Civic Association
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Anastassia ZinkeDevelopmental Minister
UU Theologian James Luther Adams believed in voluntary associations and their essential role in creating, sustaining, and renewing democratic societies. All Souls is such a voluntary association, but not the only one for most of us. In this time of polarization, what challenges and promises might voluntary associations hold for us.
October 2024
Andrea Miller: Democracy Calls
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Andrea Miller
In these last weeks before the election, let’s celebrate how democracy is a participatory process and recognize that history is made by those who show up. Come hear All Souls’ community partner and democracy organizer Andrea Miller lead us in claiming the work of this moment.
Rev. Rob Keithan: Disruption as a Spiritual Practice
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Rob KeithanMinister of Social Justice
In August I preached about the Unitarian Universalist tradition of asking questions (it’s why our religion exists!) and the kind of questions we need to ask ourselves today. It was an invitation to lean in to curiosity. Making change, however, inevitably requires action as well. The word “disruption” has a negative connotation, but sometimes that’s exactly what is needed to make progress! Can we claim disruption as a positive concept—and perhaps even a spiritual practice?
Revs. Anastassia Zinke and Rob Keithan: The Days of Awe
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speakers
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Rev. Rob KeithanMinister of Social Justice
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Rev. Anastassia ZinkeDevelopmental Minister
On this day we honor the Jewish Days of Awe, that peak with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. “Atonement” can be broken down into: “At-one-ment,” implying that when we forgive and are forgiven, we are brought back into relationship. Let us come together to reflect on and experience how we can reach for reconnection and forgiveness. As is the Jewish custom, our All Souls community will celebrate with all the generations in the sanctuary together.
September 2024
Rev. Mykal Slack: Calling One Another Home
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
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Rev. Mykal SlackGuest Preacher
What does it mean to give our bodies, minds, and spirits over to the promise and possibility of a faith living out the very best parts of itself in this place in new ways? How can we, in the context of changing leadership, loosen ourselves of control enough that we allow all the energies and Sources of love to realign us toward what is truest and best about our Unitarian Universalism and our communities?
Join The Rev. Mykal Slack, Community Minister for Worship and Spiritual Care for Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism and co-founder of the Transforming Hearts Collective, as we reflect together on Covenant and Call.
Rev. Anastassia Zinke: To Be A Covenanted People
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
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Rev. Anastassia ZinkeDevelopmental Minister
When you set out on an adventure, it is often helpful to have a guide so one doesn’t get lost. Covenants can serve as such guides. As we move through this developmental ministry, Rev. Anastassia is offering us a covenant as a guide.
Rev. Anastassia Zinke: A Covenantal Faith
Location
- All Souls and on Zoom
- 1500 Harvard St NW Washington, DC
Speaker
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Rev. Anastassia ZinkeDevelopmental Minister
Even before our Unitarian and Universalist theologies found roots in North America, we claimed the importance of having covenant be what binds us to each other. Come learn about this history, context, practice, and promise of covenanting.
Rev. Anastassia: Homecoming Sunday!
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Rev. Anastassia ZinkeDevelopmental Minister
We officially kick-off the start of the new church year with a ritual of in-gathering we call water communion. At this service, we also welcome 13 new members into fellowship with us at All Souls.