{"id":19207,"date":"2021-03-23T00:15:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=19207"},"modified":"2021-03-23T00:15:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:15:34","slug":"all-souls-unitarian-church-celebrates-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/03\/23\/all-souls-unitarian-church-celebrates-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"All Souls Unitarian Church  Celebrates 100 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma Eagle Newswire<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAll Souls Unitarian Church celebrates 100 years in Tulsa on March 28, 2021.\u00a0While the building remains closed for the time being due to the pandemic, All Souls continues to meet online via Facebook Live, Zoom, and the church website. Two special services will mark Centennial Sunday, with a traditional sanctuary service at 10 a.m. and a humanist service at 11:30 a.m. CST. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Options and links for viewing services can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/allsouls.lt.acemlna.com\/Prod\/link-tracker?redirectUrl=aHR0cCUzQSUyRiUyRmFsbHNvdWxzY2h1cmNoLm9yZyUyRmxpdmU=&amp;a=609623046&amp;account=allsouls%2Eactivehosted%2Ecom&amp;email=872IyJWmcJ9kiu1YHSeKIZ41mPsXfijnAy7uPKnJ6ZI%3D&amp;s=5efb0cbb8cba95b66b39e2e7d0995376&amp;i=982A1160A7A40665\">allsoulschurch.org\/live<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe Charter forming\u00a0All Souls Liberal Church\u00a0was signed by 27 members at the YWCA building in March of 1921.\u00a0Now known as All Souls Unitarian Church,\u00a0All Souls is one of the nation&#8217;s largest Unitarian Universalist congregation.<br \/>\nAll Souls Church, and its membership, has helped to shape Tulsa, including bringing\u00a0different denominations and faiths\u00a0together for Tulsa\u2019s first Interfaith service and marching for civil rights in the 1960s,\u00a0helping public schools integrate in the 1970s, addressing the AIDS crisis in the 1990s, and continuing\u00a0to work\u00a0toward LGBTQ, immigrant, and racial justice\u00a0today.<br \/>\n&#8220;Those of us here today are dedicated to preserving the best of our traditions, continuing to share the good news of our liberal theology, and to\u00a0growing\u00a0the church so we will still be serving the people of Tulsa 100 years from now,&#8221; Senior Minister, Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar said.<br \/>\nFirst meetings were held downtown at Tulsa&#8217;s Old City Hall, then Temple Israel, and the Majestic Theater. The church&#8217;s first permanent home was in the building that now houses Fitzgerald&#8217;s Funeral Home at 14th and Boulder. In 1956, the church moved into its current location at\u00a02952 S. Peoria Avenue.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma Eagle Newswire &nbsp; All Souls Unitarian Church celebrates 100 years in Tulsa on March 28, 2021.\u00a0While the building remains closed for the time being due to the pandemic, All Souls continues to meet online via Facebook Live, Zoom, and the church website. Two special services will mark Centennial Sunday, with a traditional sanctuary&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,116,103,104],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-19207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-faith","category-featured","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19207"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=19207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}