The St. Charles Center for Faith + Action
Welcome to The Center!
At The Center we create spaces for people of all faiths to learn, unlearn and act; building a community grounded in equity and empathy.
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Learning Over Lunch
Learning Over Lunch: How to Stop Arguing About Religion When Nothing Else Seems To Work
Religious issues often interfere with advocacy for equality and inclusion, and arguments from the Bible, tradition, and religious authorities are often cited to justify discrimination and abuse. Arguing about religion is often futile and frustrating. We will put religious arguments into perspective and explore practical strategies to defuse and redirect such arguments into issues that lie beneath religious argument where the healing begins.
Documentary Screening: Healing from Hate
& Life After Hate Panel
Documentary Screening: Healing from Hate
& Life After Hate Panel
In partnership with Life After Hate, The Center will host a documentary screening. “Healing From Hate: Battle For The Soul Of A Nation” takes us inside the minds of individuals who are drawn to hate-fueled violence and extremism. Free to attend. Register here.
Date: January 21, 2026
Time: 5:30 P.M.
Location: 7100 St. Charles Avenue
Anti-Death Penalty Summit
Anti-Death Penalty Summit
In partnership with St. Charles Baptist Church, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Promise of Justice Initiative and local clergy, The Center will host an anti-death penalty event open to the public.
Date: March 10, 2026
Time: 6:00 P.M.
More information coming soon.
In Deed and Truth
In Deed and Truth
In Deed and Truth (IDAT) is a program of the St. Charles Center for Faith + Action in partnership with E Pluribus Unum. IDAT invites predominantly historically white congregations to tell the whole truth about their histories and enter an intentional, guided discernment process to determine how each local church will act upon the full knowledge of their origins.
For additional questions please email IDAT@stcharlesave.center
This program is brought in part due to support from The Henry Luce Foundation.
Solitary Gardens
Solitary Gardens Program
What is a Solitary Garden? Solitary Gardens both directly and metaphorically ask us to imagine a landscape without prisons. We both directly and metaphorically ask us to imagine a landscape without prisons. Solitary Gardens transforms solitary confinement cells into living garden beds. The beds are designed and remotely gardened by incarcerated collaborators, known as Solitary Gardeners and are tended by community members on the outside.
“The movement of the Spirit of God in human hearts often calls them...to dare a deed that challenges and to kindle a hope that inspires.”
Donate to the Center
As you consider your gifts throughout the year, we hope you will include the St. Charles Center for Faith + Action. Each donation helps create a community that includes less incarceration and more healing.
Our Commitment to Justice
The Center embraces movements for justice and liberation, partnering with leaders from BIPOC communities. We also affirm the following Land Acknowledgment: We acknowledge that we are on Bulbancha, now called New Orleans. Bulbancha, which means place of many tongues, unceded land of the Chitimacha, the Houma, the Chahta, Yakni (Choctaw), the Atakapa Ishak Chawasha, and all Indigenous peoples of this region.
Dismantling (US)AID: A Canary in the Coal Mine
Join us for as former Senior Foreign Service Office of USAID, Alyssa Leggoe, shares the impact of aid ending for our international neighbors, and why we should care.
Free to attend. Click the image to register.
Date: January 28th
Time: 5:30 P.M.
Location: 7100 St. Charles Ave