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Sermons

May 3 May 10 May 17 May 24 May 31

Galen Guengerich Lissa Anne Gundlach Galen Guengerich Stephanie Gannon Galen Guengerich

Dear Members and Friends of All Souls,

A s my journey at All Souls comes to a close, I want to take the opportunity to say thank you. Thank you for sharing your lives with me, the joys, the struggles, the celebrations and rituals. Thank you for sharing your voices with me in music and message. Thank you for striving to create beloved community with me, even when it was challenging. Your love and encouragement have given me the strength to seek a more expansive home for my growing ministry. I look forward to sharing the wider communities of our Unitarian Universalist faith with you. Though our paths in ministry now part, together we will continue bending the same arc of the moral universe towards justice and love.

I hope you will join me for my final Sunday service on Mother’s Day, May 10th, followed by a coffee hour goodbye celebration of our ministry together. I love you All Souls, and you will always remain in my heart.

With my deepest gratitude, in faith and fellowship always,

Lissa Anne Gundlach Assistant Minister for Congregational Life

If you are interested in finding out more about our congregation and the path to membership, join us for our two-part Path to Membership Workshops:

• Welcome to All Souls• Committing to All Souls

These workshops will explore the All Souls congregation and history, the principles of Unitarian Universalism, spiritual practice and service, and how you can find your place at All Souls.

For questions, registration, or to arrange child care, contact the church at (212)535-5530 or email Membership Coordinator Maryah Converse (Maryah@AllSoulsNYC.org).

Welcome to All Souls WorkshopMay 10 1:00 p.m.

Committing to All SoulsMay 17 12:45 p.m.

Festive Goodbye Celebration for Rev. Lissa Anne Gundlach

Sunday, May 10 at Coffee Hour in Reidy Friendship Hall

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As New York Times columnist Nick Kristof noted in a discussion held in the All Souls Sanctuary on April 21st, conservative and liberal church-goers tend to have different patterns of how they support social programs. Conservatives tend to give their time volunteering, whereas liberal church-goers are more likely to put their money where their mouths and their hearts are. All Souls is such an incredibly vibrant place with a plethora of programs, constituents and groups (and some really excellent leaders, too!). Now is the time of year when we all need to put our money where our hearts are.

Stewardship is one of the areas where congregational leadership has been of such critical support – please see Marilyn Collins’ important column in this Bulletin about the exciting Grassroots Matching Gift Campaign and do plan to get involved!

You also need to know that right now we have just 16% of the fiscal year remaining and 40% of our Annual Giving goal still left to raise, perhaps because of the Executive Director transition this year. It is a big gap, but not unprecedented. We can still raise that 40%. Board Members, Deacons, Committee Members and group leaders have all set a great example so far, collectively giving in greater numbers and in greater dollars than in past years at this time. In order to reach our goal, however, there are still 330 households that have given in recent years but have not yet donated this fiscal year. We also have yet to see an increase in the amount of the most common annual gift per household, which has remained at $100 for more than five years.

There is so much good happening here and so much more that can be done! I trust that this vibrant All Souls community will come through financially to support the incredible time and talent we have already poured into climate justice, racial justice, civil rights past and present, service for the needy, education, inspiration and a place for sanctuary this year.

We would be ever so grateful if you could support All Souls by giving if you have not yet this year, or by giving more if you can. Please visit www.allsoulsnyc.org/contribution to make your donation. Thank you!

Eileen Macholl, Executive Director

From the Executive Director Board of TrusteesDear Friends,Transitions begin with endings. As Lissa Gundlach completes her work at All Souls, the Board looks back with deep gratitude on the many ways Lissa has graced our community. Congregational life and social outreach have flourished under Lissa’s leadership. Lissa’s preternaturally joyful nature has percolated through our worship together and through her pastoral care for individuals. Thank you, Lissa! You are much loved and will be much missed!

The next phase in ministerial transition will be the work of the Ministerial Search Committee. The Board plans to announce the members of the Committee in mid-May. We thank the congregation for their thoughtful participation in the selection process, and the nominees for their willingness to assume the search responsibilities. The Committee’s work will follow the timeline described in the UUA’s Settlement Handbook.

As part of the Board’s work in articulating the church’s mission, the Board will be holding Appreciative Inquiries this fall – similar to the Listening Circles in the All Souls Aspires project. In preparation, we asked participants at the April dialogue to reflect on possible questions that would engage the congregation in meaningful spiritual conversation. Our thanks to the group who participated, many of whom are pictured below. In the months ahead, you’ll be hearing more about how we all will join in creating our collective vision for the future.

All Souls needs your financial support now! With just two months remaining in our fiscal year, we still must raise a significant part of our budget. If you haven’t donated yet or if you can give more, please visit www.allsoulsnyc.org/contribution to make your donation. We have so much to be grateful for right now, and we have a bright and purposeful future ahead of us.

PS: Special congratulations to the Navigators on the opening of its 100th chapter. The Navigators is an alternative scouting organization started by Robin Bossert and volunteers from All Souls!

Onward, All Souls!Victor FidelPresident of the Board of Trustees Board@AllSoulsNYC.org

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WORSHIP AND MUSICStewardship

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for

Do you remember the buzz and sense of excitement in the air amongst our congregation last May? A surprise small group of anonymous donors came up with $100,000 as a challenge matching gift for the congregation, and it caused quite a lot of passion. Many members and friends of All Souls stepped up beyond our usual giving and rose to meet the challenge. Together, we were able to meet, significantly exceed, and get that very generous matching donation. As a result, for the first time in many years, All Souls not only made but exceeded our total annual giving goals by more than $30,000. What a huge relief and blessing that was!

As the Chair of the Stewardship Steering Committee, I have been hopeful that we could recreate that sense of joy in giving to our own precious place of worship, our place of action, our place of community. This year, a pool of matching funds is being generated from a broader array of core donors – just “us,” middle-of-the-road regulars who feel like we are connected at the core of All Souls, the Grassroots Matching Gift Campaign. The idea is pretty transparent: let those of us who are able take a lead in supporting our beloved community. We have $41,000 in commitments already!

On May 15th, we’ll launch a two-week matching gift campaign and ask all of you to take advantage of the match and help make sure our goals for another year end up in the black. We can do this! Together as a congregation! As has been attributed to many different wise ones over the years: WE ARE the ones we’ve been waiting for!

Marilyn Collins Stewardship Steering

From the Interim Music DirectorOne of the great things about music is that it is as widely varying as people themselves are. Composers, like all artists, interpret concepts and then produce their own ideas, informed by the current time period, events and philosophies. Listeners experience the compositions through their own filters and respond. Taste in music then becomes very personal and completely interesting to contemplate. On the May 3rd Musica Viva concert there are back-to-back hymns: “Te lucis ante terminum” set by Thomas Tallis in England in the 16th century, and “O Gracious Light- Phos Hilaron” set by Kevin Siegfried of Boston in our time. Both texts have been traditionally used in Christian services in the evening, as they address the end of day and the fading of light. Both compositions alternate a chant (a single line melody without accompaniment) with a contrasting section for choir.

Despite the similarities, these two pieces are technically quite different. The Tallis piece uses winding lines that intertwine and separate. The effect is one of an always-flowing conflict and resolution. The Siegfried piece uses long lasting blocky chords with harmonies that could be heard in a jazz context, but that give a sense of stasis overall. People will perceive one piece as modern and the other old, but whether they hear one as more beautiful or intriguing will be completely up to the individual’s unique experience. How then can music bring together a community of people? A human being wrote it and another human being played it. When you listen to it, you complete the artistic process. You as the listener are always in a partnership with the composer and performer, and attending a concert is even more of a social contract. Sharing the experience of active listening is one of the great gifts of human communication.

At this time when life is full of tragedy in many parts of the world, we need music even more now. Listening and performing together can save us from despair, bring us together and stir us into action. I hope you will pursue many opportunities at All Souls and beyond to experience a fully musical life.

Misa IwamaInterim Music Director

Stewardship DialogueSunday, May 31, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

in the Ware Room Our Stewardship Steering Committee is making plans to keep our church moving ahead with all the wonderful work we do, and we would love your suggestions and feedback. Please join us as we review our progress and outline events coming up for the next fiscal year.

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Neo-bop jazz pianist and vocalist Johnny O’Neal is influenced by many jazz elders, including Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum. His playing ranges from the technically virtuosic to the tenderest of ballad interpretations. In 1974, Johnny moved to Birmingham, Alabama and worked as a musician, never needing a day job to make ends meet. He is a 1997 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. On the recommendation of Oscar Peterson, O’Neal portrayed Art Tatum in the 2004 movie Ray, convincingly recreating Tatum’s sound on the song “Yesterdays.”

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A pivotal figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) continued the democratic tradition of American poetry established by poets such as Whitman and Sandburg. Hughes focused his work on the discrimination against black people in American society. Known for his engagement with the world of jazz, he wrote poems charged with the immediacy of life and the rhythm of speech and song.

An Evening Meditation of Jazz and Poetry

Sunday, May 175-6 p.m. in the Sanctuary

Led by Galen Guengerich

Featuring Johnny O’Neal, piano

and the poetry of Langston Hughes

All SoulS

At Sundownworship in a different light

Thursday, May 28 at 7:00 p.m. in the SanctuaryConcert featuring The Polyphony Quartet

The Polyphony Foundation—an organization dedicated to using the power of classical music to bridge the divide between Arab and Jewish communities in Israel—will host performances by four young Arab and Jewish musicians comprising The Polyphony Quartet. The quartet will feature two Arab and two Jewish musicians from Israel—Feras Machour, Revital Bendersky, Mahdi Saadi, and Hallel Miriam Tutter. The quartet will perform under the baton of violinist and Polyphony Foundation Co-Founder/Artistic Director Nabeel Abboud-Ashkar.

The evening’s program will include works for quartet by celebrated classical masters, including Dvořák and Mozart, and works by renowned Israeli and Arab composers reflecting the two cultures of the musicians, including Paul Ben-Haim’s Prelude for String Quartet and Bladyat from Taiseer Haddad’s Middle Eastern Triology. The program will also include a brief discussion and Q&A about Polyphony and the important work that the organization is doing in Israel between Abboud-Ashkar and the Rev. Galen Guengerich, Senior Minister at All Souls Church.

New Amsterdam Boys and Girls Choir Spring Concert

The New Amsterdam Boys and Girls Choir (NABGC) will present its annual spring concert on Saturday, May 9th, 4 p.m. at Hunter College’s Lang Recital Hall. Funds from this event will support the choir scholarship program. The NABGC has been a regular guest at All Souls for many years. The NABGC receives funding from Heart & Soul Charitable Fund.

All tickets purchased online will be held at the doorhttp://bit.ly/1GlF9M0

For more information, please contact James Backmon: 646-371-4007 or nabgchoir@yahoo.com, or visit www.naboysgirlschoir.org.

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The Hub

Chancel Flowers

May 3In memory of

Emma and Chandler Foot by their daughter, Louise F. Besson

In loving memory of Marta Ines Favelukes de Tobal

by her sister-in-law, Hanna Favelukes

In loving memory of her mother, Mae Kilpatrick Cohn, and her grandmother, Mary Graham Kilpatrick,

by Margaret Cohn Galletta

In loving memory of her grandmother, Helen F. Dickerson

and her parents, Ruth Dickerson Creager and Clayton Creager

by Cindy Creager-Jones and Bob Jones

May 10 In loving memory of

Ondoise and Charles Bechman by their sons, Bill and Jim

In loving memory of Daniel and Margaret Zimany by their daughter, Rita Frank,

and granddaughters, Mara and Tamar

In loving memory of Phyllis Scott Murphy

by her daughter, Marilynn Scott Murphy

May 17In loving memory of her father,

Henry Nelson Rowley, Jr., by his daughter, Alexandra Rowley

I see your shining face in every spring blossom.

In loving memory of her mom, Elonia Buresh

by Deborah Jackson

May 24In honored memory of

those who gave their lives in the service of our country by the congregation of All Souls Church

In loving memory of their parents, Irene and Vincent Terenzio and

Marie and Alfred Hartley by Clarisse Gillcrist and Bill Hartley

In loving memory of David Pomrinse

Always in my heart,Kay

In loving memory of Mary Nell Santacroce

by her daughter, Dana Ivey

*** To make a dedication, please contact Hannah Marks at

(212) 410-4517 or dmmhmm@aol.com.

Sunday, May 31 at 5 p.m. in the SanctuaryTheme: Growing Older

The Hub is a unique worship service led collaboratively by a team of All Souls community members and ministers and designed for all ages and generations. At the Hub, we believe in the power of connection and that sharing our experiences helps us to discover a shared sense of community and purpose. We invite you to join us for music, storytelling, and personal reflection, and to find yourself deeply known and held in community.

The next Hub service will be:• Sunday, June 28. Theme: Admitting I Was Wrong

Send an email to TheHub@AllSoulsNYC.org to receive monthly invitations.

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Adult Education

Hear Adult Education Lectures OnlineNow you can enjoy All Souls’ enriching Adult Education lectures at home, on the way to work, or on the go.Visit www.allsoulsnyc2.org/rss/adulted.rss to hear selected lectures from the Adult Education program as downloadable MP3s.

10:00 a.m.Sundays, May 3 and 10 in Reidy Friendship HallTwo Perspectives on Current Theology and Social Ethics with Gary Dorrien, Ph.D

Professor Gary Dorrien, whom Cornell West has called “the preeminent social ethicist in North America today,” will lead us in two different approaches to contemporary social ethics. In the first session he will address the current issues of racial justice in America and preview his newest book, The New Abolition: W.E.B. DuBois and the Black Social Gospel (to be published by Yale University Press in September). In the second he will give an autobiographical account of the influences in his own personal spiritual journey that led him from a completely unreligious upbringing to Christian theology, and from theology to social ethics. May 3: Recovering the Black Social Gospel: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel May 10: How I Got Like This: An Intellectual Memoir

Gary Dorrien, Ph.D is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Theology and Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, Professor of Religion at Columbia University, and for the past two years, a Visiting Lecturer at the Harvard Divinity School. The author of 16 books and some 275

articles ranging across the fields of ethics, social theory, theology, philosophy, politics, economics and history, he has a long history of involvement in social justice organizations. His book Economy, Difference, Empire: Social Ethics for Social Justice (2010) is based on his lectures on economic democracy, racial and gender justice, and anti-imperial politics. More recently Professor Dorrien published a critique of the Obama presidency, The Obama Question: A Progressive Perspective (2012) and lectured widely on it. More than 40 reviewers have described his trilogy The Making of American Liberal Theology (2001-06) as the definitive work in the field.

11:15 a.m.Sunday, May 3 in Reidy Friendship HallPart 3 of The Bhagavad Gita: Jnana (Knowledge)with Gadahara Pandit Dasa

Mr. Dasa concludes this three-part series, begun in April, of explorations of the Bhagavad Gita, considered by most Hindus as the primary spiritual text of India. The focus of the series is on how the Gita can help the individual achieve a balance in one’s material and spiritual pursuits.

Gadahara Pandit Dasa is an urban Hindu monk who currently serves as a Hindu Chaplain at both NYU and Columbia Universities, and an Interfaith Chaplain at Union Theological Seminary.

Sundays, May 10 and 17 in Reidy Friendship HallHow Does Faith Mature? James Fowler’s Model of Faith Development with Cory Labanow, Ph.D

Raised in an Assemblies of God congregation in Cleveland, a member of the largest Pentecostal Christian fellowship in the world, Cory Labanow’s personal spiritual journey eventually led him to affiliate with All Souls Unitarian Church. Drawing in part on his own story, he will explore the questions: In what ways does a person’s faith develop and change throughout one’s life? Why does it grow or stagnate? This two-part series will explore James Fowler’s stages of faith, the leading model for understanding faith development over the past 30 plus years. May 10:Fowler’s theoretical six stages through which an individual’s faith may travel (though very few individuals complete all six stages). May 17: How churches and liberal religion may support (or impede) the development of an individual’s faith.

Cory Labanow, Ph.D has been an active member of All Souls since joining the congregation in 2006. Before moving to New York, he earned a doctorate in Practical Theology from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. His thesis, Evangelicalism and the Emerging Church, was published in 2009.

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Adult EducationSunday, May 17 at 11:15 a.m. and Sunday, May 24 and 31 at 10:00 a.m. in Reidy Friendship HallThe Book of Revelation: Then and Nowwith Robyn Whitaker, Ph.D

Perhaps nothing is more puzzling or alarming in biblical literature as the apocalyptic visions of the final book of the New Testament—the Book of Revelation or John’s Apocalypse. And nothing is more alienating to the liberal religious community as the way this text has frequently been interpreted and used by many Christian communities. Join us as biblical scholar Robyn Whitaker introduces us to several key themes of John’s apocalyptic vision and helps us to understand the text in its original political-religious and social context. She will also consider its possible relevance in the modern world as well as the various ways it has been misunderstood and misused in modern religious discourse.

Robyn J. Whitaker, Ph.D, is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Union Theological Seminary where she teaches biblical languages. Born and raised in South Africa, she later moved to Australia where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology and Psychology from Monash University and Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Theology degrees from The University of Divinity in Melbourne. After moving to the US she completed a doctorate in 2014 in New Testament Studies at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. Most of her scholarship to date has been focused on apocalyptic literature in the Bible in both its ancient and modern contexts, and biblical conceptions of evil.

Adventures in IdeasSunday, May 3 at 1:00 p.m. in the Mary-Ella Holst RoomTopic: What is the Meaning of Life?Facilitator: Dennis DeForge

The meaning of life. The meaning of a disaster, of a work of art, of nature. We spend a lot of time wondering about the meaning of things—the sense, the significance, the concept behind things as the dictionary says. Not the thing itself, but our abstraction of the thing itself. Is it possible things have no meaning beyond what we assign them? Consider this excerpt from Bob Dylan’s The Gates of Eden:“At dawn my lover comes to me/ And tells me of her dreams/ With no attempts to shovel the glimpse/ Into the ditch of what each one means.”

Fridays, May 1, 8, 15, and 22 at 7:00 p.m. in the Forrest Church Gallery Transcendental Poetry and Stories Study Groupwith Judith and Andre deZanger

We will read and discuss various Transcendental Poems and Stories that resonate and bring us to “Wonder, Mystery and Oneness.” Please bring poems, stories (short) or quotes to share. Bring paper and pencils. Contact: Judith and Andre de Zanger, creativityinstitute@juno.com, (212)289-8856

Judith and Andre de Zanger are co-directors of The Creativity Institute. Together they are the authors of The Tao

of Creativity, The Tao of Living on Purpose, and The Tao of Sculpting.

Saturday, May 9 from 2 - 4:00 p.m. in the GallerySoar With Your Strengths - Live With Your Passionswith Andre and Judith deZanger

Research shows that happy, successful, creative people focus on their strengths. When we combine our strengths with our passion and values we create a meaningful life with a sense of purpose. Go to www.viacharacter.org/survey and take a survey about your personal strengths. Register at www.creativityinstuitute.com or (212) 289-8856. $5.00 contribution to All Souls.

Sign Up To Receive A Common Meditation for All Souls

These meditations are a daily spiritual practice to help spark our moral imagination and set our moral compass as individuals (Emerson called it “provocative reading”). It can also help establish a common spiritual conversation that will further unite us as a community of faith. Sign up at www.allsoulnyc.org/meditationsubscribe to receive these meditations by email.

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Cogent Talk about a Complex World

Thursday, May 21 at 7:00 p.m. in Reidy Friendship Hall

Zionism, American and Israeli Jews: Leadership and the Way Forward

with Lawrence Besserman, Ph.D, and Irene Siegel, Ph.D

Co-sponsored with Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East

This is the fourth in a series of four programs that began in November examining issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the prospects for peace. This conversation will feature Professors Lawrence Besserman, recently retired from the faculty of the Hebrew University, and Irene Siegel of Hofstra University. All three of the previous programs (a historical survey by Prof. Zachary Lockman in November; an overview of the current impasse by Phyllis Bennis in January; and a view of the situation from the point of view of the Palestinian people in March) are all available as podcasts on the All Souls website at www.allsoulsnyc2.org/rss/adulted.rss.

Moderator: Rev. David Robb is Assistant Minister at All Souls and directs the Adult Education program of the congregation.

Bible StudyTuesdays, May 12 and 26, 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the Minot Simons Room Journey Through the Bible: Unitarian Universalist Bible Study

Are you curious about reading the Bible, but aren’t sure where to begin? Twice a month, All Souls members and friends read from the Bible aloud in conversation with the historical context, the Unitarian Universalist tradition, and our life experience. No previous experience or preparation is needed. All are welcome. You can bring your own copy of the New Revised Standard Version, or copies will be provided. Email Stephanie@AllSoulsNYC.org for more info.

“I dwell in Possibility” Life’s Big Questions

viewed through the poems of Emily Dickinson

May 17 at 2:00 p.m. in the Ware Room

May 17, 2015:The Question of Justice

It feels a shame to be Alive – This 1863 poem about the Civil War dead becomes a meditation on justice: do citizens who remain safe at

home in times of grave crisis deserve the ultimate sacrifice made by others?

Adult Education

Irene Siegel, Ph.D is a performer, activist, teacher and scholar who has been involved with research and teaching of Arabic and French literature for nearly 20 years, and has been involved in Israeli/Palestinian issues for decades. She has spent 7 years in the Middle East and Africa, including several years in the occupied territories of the West Bank where she has taught and been involved in human rights. Since earning a doctorate in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley, she has served as Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University where she also directs the Arabic Language Program and conducts research on Jewish-Arabic identity. Professor Siegel is also a member of Jewish Voice for Peace

Lawrence Besserman, Ph.D is Professor of English, emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he taught from 1978 to 2009. He is the author of The Legend of Job in the Middle Ages (Harvard, 1979), Chaucer and the Bible (Garland, 1988), Chaucer’s Biblical Poetics (U. of OK, 1998), and Biblical Paradigms In Medieval Literature

(Routledge, 2012). In addition to Hebrew University he has also taught at Harvard, NYU and Columbia Universities.

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I don’t usually write personally in the church bulletin, but life changes are afoot! First, I am graduating from Union Theological Seminary on May 15th with a Masters in Divinity. I have worked very hard these last three years, while serving as your Director of Religious Education, to achieve this goal. Our RE program has benefited from my experience at Union. I have completed Clinical Pastoral Education and am now able to offer stronger, more capable pastoral care. I have recruited many of my Seminary colleagues to teach R.E. at All Souls, which has elevated the quality of our Sunday morning program. I have deepened the theological reflection and worship experience for our children in Children’s Worship, and brought some of my skills and learning into our family ministry of Support Groups and Parenting Discussions. I am grateful to the staff of All Souls and Galen for his support of my academic studies.

The other news is that I am currently pregnant. . . with twins! This is very welcome news to me and my husband, James Richards. We are very excited to become parents later this summer/early fall and to put years of thoughtful contemplation and experience with children and youth into practice with our own kids. I am feeling good these days, and happy to share the excitement of this special time in my life with all of you.

Taryn Strauss,Director of Religious Education

RE flections

RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONChildren and Youth

RE Calendar

Typical Sunday morning schedule (excluding weeks with Multigenerational Worship at 10 a.m.):

• Children’s Worship 10:00 a.m. in the Chapel• Religious Education Classes 10:15-11:15 a.m.• Parents Fellowship Coffee 11 a.m. in the Ware Room• Creative Arts Workshops 11:15-12:15• Junior High and High School Youth Groups

11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

May 1-2 • Metro NY District Annual Meeting

May 3 • Teacher Recognition Sunday • YouthGroupapalooza • Guided Parent Discussion • RE Teacher Appreciation Luncheon

May 9 • Junior High Super Spring Sleepover

May 10 • Single Parents Support Group

May 13 • RE Committee Meeting

May 17 • RE Teacher Small Group Ministry

May 24 • No RE programs May 31 • Bridging Ceremony

Dessert DonationsThe RE Program partners with Monday Night Hospitality to provide desserts to the 300+ guests they serve each and every week.

The schedule for the remainder of this quarter is:May 3: Younger Pre-School & 2nd GradeMay 10: 7th Grade & 8th GradeMay 17: Kindergarten, 3rd Grade & High School Youth Group

Please bring all donations to Carson’s office.

From the Youth Ministries Coordinator:

Youthgroupapalooza is on May 3rd and starts right after the teacher recognition ceremony. 6th-12th graders are invited to join us in the Tower Room for fun and games! Also in May we will be supporting Lissa in her transition and celebrating her accomplishments. The Bridging Ceremony is May 31st at 10:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary. This ceremony celebrates children and youth in our community by living out our 3rd principle of accepting one another and encouraging spiritual growth in our congregation. We will invite them to continue on their life’s journey knowing the community is by their side with love and support.

Kamila Jacob, Youth Ministries Coordinator

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Congregational Life

T hese are difficult times in Baltimore, home of my alma mater, and across our nation and world. These are the times when I need the support of my faith community, this great family of All Souls.

That is why I was so uplifted to be at Middle Collegiate Church last month

with a dozen All Soulsers in the Racial Justice Initiative for the Leading Edge Conference: Race, Reconciliation and Courage. We were joined by Union seminarians, Unitarian Universalists from across the country, people of faith from across the city, activists, and artists. I am excited about connections we made there and the insight and courage we gained to continue our important work of justice and compassion. Watch this Bulletin and the Facebook group of the All Souls Racial Justice Initiative to find out about ongoing opportunities to get involved.

I was also excited to see All Soulsers out on the streets of New York City, marching for United Nations leadership on global nuclear disarmament. The Nuclear Disarmament Taskforce of All Souls often flies under the radar, doing important work without making a big splash, but not this time in their yellow Standing on the Side of Love tshirts.All Souls is an important haven of support in troubled times. It is also an important fulcrum for bending the arc of the moral universe towards justice in our city, our nation and our world. If you want help finding where your deep need for justice can find its voice at All Souls, please contact me at Maryah@AllSoulsNYC.org.

In the spirit of love … and the service of all….

Maryah ConverseMembership Coordinator

Deepening Community

Support Welcoming at All Souls One Hour Per MonthSometimes a small commitment can yield the greatest spiritual fulfillment. Ushers at All Souls volunteer to serve one Sunday per month for one service, either 10:00 or 11:15. Find out more by contacting Membership Coordinator Maryah Converse at Maryah@AllSoulsNYC.org or (212) 535-5530.

Make a monthly commitment to All Souls’ ministry of welcome and hospitality, and see how profoundly this simple act of service deepens your personal and spiritual connections, for yourself and for so many you will serve.

Our Interim Ministerial Transition StaffAll Souls is thrilled to welcome two exceptionally dynamic faith leaders who will each serve in part-time capacities in the coming year, filling the roles during our Ministerial Search transition year that Rev. Lissa Gundlach’s departure for Pasadena will leave vacant. The Rev. Nancy O. Arnold will serve as our part-time Interim Assistant Minister for Pastoral Care and Congregational Life, and Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward will serve as our interim part-time Program Director for Young Adult, Advocacy, and Outreach Programs. Below, please read a little about the experience and backgrounds these remarkable women will each bring to All Souls.

The Rev. Nancy O. Arnold’s roots in Unitarian Universalism are in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she served as an active lay leader for ten years before studying for the ministry. She is a 1984 Women’s Studies graduate from U-Mass, Amherst, and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.

Nancy served congregations in Connecticut and Ohio as a parish minister for seventeen years prior to returning to her native New York in 2008. For three years, she worked as a hospice chaplain with Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and as the Pastoral Care Minister for the Bay Shore congregation. She became the Interim Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington in February 2012, and of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork in September 2013.

Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist with a multi-religious background, whose personal mission is to empower leaders of all ages to grow spiritually while making social change. Her work has included ministry, community

organizing, writing, teaching and training, coaching, and non-profit management.

Betty Jeanne has provided leadership for all levels of Unitarian Universalism. She has served on staff at the Unitarian Universalist Association’s denominational headquarters; mobilized faith-based campaigns for the Legislative Ministry in California; and lead the Young Adult Ministries at the congregation at Shelter Rock, where she hosted a national leadership development training for young adults attended by All Souls members and staff. Betty Jeanne also serves as an off-site member of the faculty of Starr King School for the Ministry, the Unitarian Universalist seminary in Berkeley, CA.

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Denominational AffairsAre You Going to General Assembly in Portland?

There will be an informational meeting on Sunday, May 10, at 2:30 p.m. (location TBD) for those interested in attending the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Portland, OR, June 24-28. We will talk about what to expect, and start organizing some All Souls get-togethers during GA. For more information, contact Membership Coordinator Maryah Converse at Maryah@AllSoulsNYC.org or (212) 535-5530.

Congregational LifeLongtime All Souls Members to be honored at Metro New York District Annual Meeting, May 2

The Board of the UU Metro New York District has selected Mary-Ella Holst and Guy Quinlan to receive this year’s Jerry Davidoff Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Named for the award’s first recipient, this award honors individuals who further, through lifetime accomplishment, a greater awareness of the potential of Unitarian Universalism to transform individual lives, communities, and the greater world. New York Metro District Board Trustee and All Souls Deacon George Collins, who nominated Mary-Ella and Guy and will present the award to them, says, “I can’t think of two members of our congregation more deserving of this award.”

Mary-Ella and Guy will be honored on Saturday, May 2, during the 2015 Metro New York District meeting, a two-day event (Friday and Saturday) held at the Hyatt in Morristown, NJ. Mary-Ella’s daughter, Pat Infante, will be part of the UUA staff participating in and supporting this event. Because Metro New York is planning to merge with other neighboring districts to become the UUA’s Central East Region, the 2015 meeting may be the last time this award is presented to Metro District honorees.

It would be most fitting if a sizeable group from All Souls were on hand to raise a cheer for Mary-Ella and Guy. For more information about attending the Annual Meeting, go to http://uumetrony.org/am15/index.htm or contact Lissa Gundlach (Lissa@AllSoulsNYC.org) or Maryah Converse (Maryah@AllSoulsNYC.org).

Pastoral Care Resource Guide Now Available

Dear Friends,

I’m happy to announce the publication of the All Souls Pastoral Resource Guide, a collection of organizations that provide social services, health information, and other assistance mainly for seniors and their caregivers. The resources focus on services for seniors in Manhattan.

The guide can be accessed directly through this link: www.allsoulsnyc.org/resourceguide. Printed copies are available too - one is in the upstairs church office, and one in the front office. The Women’s Alliance, the Circle of Elders, the Caring Team, and the Lay Pastoral Associate Team each has a copy for reference.

If you have trouble and need help accessing the information on the web, please don’t hesitate to seek guidance from any of the Lay Pastoral Associates by calling our pastoral care hotline at (646)669-9345, or by emailing us at PastoralAssociates@AllSoulsNYC.org. Even if you’re not a senior yet or a caregiver of a senior, you might consider the Guide’s usefulness for family members or friends who are in need.

I initiated and have managed the project as a result of my experience over several years as a Lay Pastoral Associate at All Souls. The LPA program started in 2010 with four people and has grown to 12. All have been trained and continue to train under the direction and supervision of our Ministers. Our names are listed on the inside front cover of the Order of Service and on the All Souls website. While Lay Pastoral work is mainly one of listening and supporting congregants spiritually and emotionally during difficult times, I have encountered situations where I wished that we had a list of resources outside the church to which we could refer congregants as needed. I am so grateful to the members of the resource project team who have worked diligently for several months to create this comprehensive and caring document. The Resource Guide will be updated periodically. Please direct your questions, comments or updates to me at manywatsons@gmail.com.

With gratitude for our All Souls community,Hanan Watson

Pastoral Care

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Congregational LifeFellowship

The Women’s Alliance has been a part of All Souls for more than 100 years. It meets the third Wednesday of each month in the Ware Room for a bring-your-own lunch. It also organizes other events.

Saturday, May 16 at 11:00 a.m. Visit to the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum2 East 91st StreetVolunteer art librarian Barbara Reed will give us a tour of the newly renovated museum and its current exhibits. Lunch to follow at a neighborhood restaurant. RSVP to Betty McCollum: 212-535-8040 or BMcC8631@aol.com.

Wednesday, May 20 at 12:30 p.m. in the Ware Room Women, Money, Power and Our SoulsPresentation by Eileen Macholl, All Souls Executive Director, speaking on “Women, Money, Power and Our Souls,” 12:30 in the Ware Room. Bring a brown bag lunch. Beverages and desserts will be provided.

Women’s AllianceThursdays, May 14 and 28 in the Ware Room from 2:00-4:00 p.m.

The Circle of Elders is open to men and women in the latter part of their lives. Its purpose is to talk about the challenges this time of life brings, and to share experiences, information, and ways to enrich and make the most of these later and more time-limited years. For more information, contact Mary Keane at (212) 879-6340 or Keanepsyedu@aol.com.

May 14 theme: Challenges to ContentmentMay 28 theme: Self-Nurturance

Circle of Elders

Interweave-LGBTInterweave-LGBT Fundraiser for Housing Works’ The Asylum Project

Thanks so much to everyone who contributed at our table at coffee hour and at Interweave-LGBT’s events! We will be donating $192 to The Asylum Project, or approximately 6 weekly Metro Cards or 70 single rides. Special thanks to The Hub team for contributing the charitable half of their offerings from January-March to our cause as well!

Tuesday, May 19 at 7 p.m. in Reidy Friendship HallRJI/Interweave Conversation With The N.Y.P.D.Join the Racial Justice Initiative and Interweave-LGBT as they host members of the New York City Police Department’s Community Affairs Division. Please see the Racial Justice Initiative’s section on page 16 of this Bulletin for full details.

Sunday, May 24 at 1 p.m. Interweave LGBT Discussion Join us for our monthly social focused on fellowship and meaningful discussion, particularly of current LGBT issues. This month join us for brunch at a local restaurant. We’ll meet in Friendship Hall at 12:45. All ages and orientations are welcome to join us.

All Souls Writers’ GroupMondays, May 11 and 25 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., in the Chapel

This group is open to all writers, whether of fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, published or unpublished, as well as journalists and people who work in publishing. All are invited to read their work. Comments and discussion are welcome. Contact Marilyn Mehr for more information: marmehr@aol.com or (212) 249-0012.

Caregiver Support Group Meeting Sunday, May 3 from 1:00-2:30 p.m., in the Mezzanine Meeting RoomAre you or someone you know caring for a loved one? Please join Pamela Patton in a Caregivers Support Group. Pamela is a cofounder of Caring from a Distance (www.cfad.org) and she was All Souls’ Student Minister last year. If you have questions or concerns, please email Pamela at Pamela@AllSoulsNYC.org.

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Congregational Life

First Thursday - May 7 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Ware Room Meeting-in-a-Circle, like a support groupFor more information, see www.allsoulsnyc.org/career_group.

See us when we have a table in Reidy Friendship Hall on Sundays from 12:15 PM to 1 PM, where we provide individual help - we’ll be there most Sundays this month.

Third Thursday - May 21 from 6:45 to 9:00 p.m. in the Ware RoomOne-on-One Clinic - by appointment only - to help you get to do what you really want to be doing, whether it’s for pay or notOne-on-One Clinic - by appointment only - to help you get to do what you really want to be doing, whether it’s for pay or not. For more information, see www.allsoulsnyc.org/career_groupIs there a topic or presenter you’d like us to schedule?Email John L. German german63@hotmail.com.

Career Development and Life Design Group

Stories with Soul6:45 p.m. in the Ware RoomNow in its 22nd year, Stories with Soul invites you to join us for a one-hour short story reading and discussion. No prior reading necessary. “A Mecca for lovers of the short story” (Columbia Spectator) and a great way to meet people. For more information, contact Steve Michelman, Coordinator, at stephenemichelman@mac.com. Wednesday, May 6Sexy by Jhumpa Lahiri, read by Marlene Jeenel Wednesday, May 13Dolly by Alice Munro, read by Virginia Cava Wednesday, May 20Find and Replace by Ann Beattie, read by Teresa Brooks Wednesday, May 27The Office by Alice Munro, read by Pat Taylor May Host: Trish Katz

Sunday, May 3 at 1:00 p.m.First Sunday BrunchFollowing Coffee Hour, we will head out for a picnic-style brunch in Central Park. You’ll have time to pick up something tasty at your favorite local spot, and then we’ll walk to the east side 79th street entrance of the park and find somewhere grassy to sit. To find us, come to Coffee Hour following the service.

Thursday, May 7 at 7:00 p.m. in the Gallery Food and FellowshipOur twice-a-month dinner and discussion evening at the church, hosted by a young adult. Food at 7 p.m.; discussion at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, May 15, 7:00-10:00 p.m. in the ChapelYoung Adults Movie Night: Babette’s FeastCome join us for a new event: the ASYA Movie Night! Matt Brandenburgh will pick a favorite film from his list of overlooked classics and present it to the group. This month’s film is “Babette’s Feast,” a beautiful film about food, love, and the joys of life. The movie screening will begin promptly at 7:15. Afterwards, a discussion will be hosted in the Ware Room, followed by a group outing to a bar or restaurant.

Sunday, May 17 at 12:45 p.m. - Bagel BrunchFollowing the service, we will meet for bagels, veggies, and lots of exciting mingling. A great way to meet new folks in the group. Look for us in Coffee Hour and we will head to whatever room we’re meeting in from there.

Wednesday, May 20 at 7:00 p.m. in the GalleryFood and Fellowship: Traveling SoloIs there a trip you’ve been dying to do but can’t match your schedule with someone? Maybe you want to escape on your own but avoid it because of certain fears or possible misconceptions holding back the reins? Join host Neora Luria to learn some tips and tricks on traveling solo in addition to some very good reasons why you should do it. If you don’t have anybody to come to Food and Fellowship with, come alone - we challenge you!

Young Adults

Fellowship Learning and Growth

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Congregational Life

New York Common Pantry

All Souls May Food Drive for New York Common Pantry

With donations at a critical low at pantries/shelters across the country, All Souls is renewing our efforts to collect food donations on the second Sunday each month. We need your help! Please consider donating goods. Look for our table during Coffee Hour in Reidy Friendship Hall on Sunday, May 10th. For May, we are collecting:-Brown rice-Canned tuna/salmon/chicken-Whole wheat pasta

For more information contact Wiley Saichek at wsaichek@gmail.com.

All Souls Online

web: www.allsoulsnyc.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/AllSoulsNYC

Rev. Galen’s Twitter: @RevGalen

Sermon Podcast: www.allsoulsnyc2.org/rss/sermons.rss - or search iTunes!

Service and Outreach

Racial Justice InitiativeTuesday, May 19 in Reidy Friendship HallReception at 7:00 p.m.; program at 7:30 p.m.A Conversation with the N.Y.P.D. Community Affairs Division Join the Racial Justice Initiative and Interweave-LGBT as they host members of the New York City Police Department’s Community Affairs Division. We will learn about the many educational and interactive programs that they host for both adults and youth such as the Ride-Along-Program, Citizen’s Police Academy, and the Summer Youth Police Academy. We will also have the opportunity to discuss the challenges of being a police officer in NYC, and learn about the procedures they use to address the wide range of conflicts they face while on duty. This will be an opportunity to share our thoughts about recent events involving officers across the country, and to listen to members of the NYPD as they offer the police perspective. This will be the first in a series of dialogues that seeks to build a respectful, open conversation between All Souls and the NYPD and clarify our role as advocates for positive relationships between citizens and law enforcement. Light RefreshmentsFree Event - Donations Appreciated

Green Souls

The Women’s Reading Group meets in the Ware Room at 7:30 pm on the first and third Tuesdays of September through May to discuss books written by women. The final selection of our season is: May 5 & 19 House of Mirth by Edith Wharton On Sunday, June 7, we will hold our annual “Book and Brownie Sale” to raise money for groups that foster literacy, especially among children. The sale will be held in the church garden (weather permitting; otherwise, Reidy Friendship Hall) Last year $600 was raised and donated to Reach Out and Read (R.O.A.R) and the Children of Bellevue, Inc. literacy and arts programs for hospitalized children.

Donations of boxes or bags of “gently used” books support this effort. (No textbooks, please.) Books should be deposited in the front office clearly marked “WRG 2015.” The deadline for depositing books is noon of the day before the sale, June 6. The sorting and set-up of the books is scheduled for Saturday, June 6 from 3 to 5:00 p.m. in the Forrest Church Gallery. Contact: meholst@aol.comWhether you donate, buy books or brownies, we thank you for your support!

Women’s Reading Group

Sunday, May 3, 1-2 p.m. in the Forrest Church Gallery Green Souls MeetingGreen Souls will be developing recommendations for the congregation to reduce its carbon footprint, and working towards the accreditation of All Souls as a Unitarian Universalist Green Sanctuary.

Learning and Growth

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Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East

Congregational LifeService and Outreach

Sunday, May 17 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. in the GalleryUUJME Monthly MeetingUUJME will hold its regular monthly meeting on Sunday, May 17, in the Gallery, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. All are welcome to join our ongoing study and discussion. For more information contact Deborah Taylor (dft4net0@gmail.com) or Karen Steele (ksteele@mindspring.com).

Thursday, May 21 at 7:00 p.m. in Reidy Friendship HallZionism, American and Israeli Jews, Leadership and the Way ForwardCo-sponsored by The Lifelines Center and Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, this is the fourth in a series of programs on The Palestinians, The Israelis, and The Americans: The Place, the People, and Our American Role in the 21st Century Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Please see the Lifelines Center section on page 10 of this Bulletin for full details on this special event.

Reproductive Justice Task Force

Co-leaders: Tara McNamara (tmcnamara96@gmail.com) Courtney McKee: (mckee.courtney@gmail.com) and Sandra Ekberg (sjeconsultants@earthlink.net)

Thursday, May 1 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.Why Sex? Why Gender? A Symposium Honoring Janet JakobsenBarnard Center for Research on Women

To register go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-sex-why-gender-a-symposium-honoring-janet-jakobsen-tickets-16382436308

Rent Reform Task ForceNew! All Souls Real Rent Reform Task Force

If you live in rental housing in New York City you have housing issues. The shortage of affordable housing is huge and getting worse because the real estate industry has designed the rent laws to benefit landlords, not tenants. We have lost at least one million affordable apartments due to these rent laws. Some of us have had to move out of state to outposts like Newark to find what we need and can afford!

Joining forces with the citywide Real Rent Reform campaign, we are starting a task force at All Souls to address the key issues, among them repeal of Vacancy Decontrol and reform of MCI (Major Capital Improvement) charges that become a permanent part of your rent even after the expense is paid off, believe it or not! It’s a big agenda but we’re refining it.

There’s no time to waste as the rent laws expire in June this year. Look for our table at Coffee Hour on Sundays to get the details of the numerous other real estate industry scams and join us to help start organizing our congregation on this vital issue.

Please call Ivana Edwards or Carol Schneider with questions. Otherwise see you on Sundays at the table!

Reproductive Justice Task Force (cont.)

Wednesday, May 13 at 7:00 p.m. in Reidy Friendship Hall Speaker – Katherine Bodde

Katharine Bodde, Policy Counsel from NYCLU, will speak to members and friends of All Souls about the status of Reproductive Justice issues in New York State and what we can do to get more involved. Most people think that the story is over for NY with Reproductive Justice, as we are one of the most liberal states in terms of abortion access, birth control, and Plan B. However, the truth is that there is still a lot of work to be done. Please join us to find out more information and how you can best help!

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