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At the Center, we strive to bring people of faith and conscience alongside experts and partners to explore and envision new pathways to justice.
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Dinner Fundraiser for Home is Here
Join us for an evening of dinner, networking, and letter writing to detained immigrants to support the continuing work of Home is Here. Half of proceeds will go to Home is Here, a grassroots nonprofit organization that connects newly arriving immigrants and asylum-seekers to community-based systems of support, housing and other resources.
Date: September 25th 7:00-9:00 P.M.
Location: 7100 St. Charles Avenue
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Exploring Gender Identity: Curiosity, Compassion, & Clarity
Join us for an informative evening with Dr. Emily Starr, an expert in gender identity and inclusive education. Dr. Starr will guide us in deepening our understanding of gender identity and expanding our empathy toward transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse individuals. Whether you're a parent, educator, faith leader, or community member, this session offers meaningful tools to foster compassion and inclusion. This event is in partnership with PFLAG New Orleans and St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church.
Free to attend, donations encouraged.
Date: October 14th 7:00-8:00 P.M.
Location: 7100 St. Charles Avenue
Standing in Truth: Faith, Narrative and Resistance
In a moment when both democracy and discipleship are under threat, people of faith and conscience are called to truth-telling as sacred resistance. Join us November 13th-16th for an impactful series of gatherings that center the urgent work of narrative change and faith-inspired action.
You do not need to belong to a church or have completed IDAT programming to attend. We invite clergy, church members, activists, students, justice seekers, and anyone longing for a more just and beloved community.
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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 Program
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.