Welcome to the Center!
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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Restorative Justice Happy Hour
Restorative Justice Happy Hour
Join us for an informal time of gathering, solidarity, and cross-pollination. Also, on July 18, meet the Center’s new Executive Director, Paige Davis! Feel free to stop by between 4:00 and 6:00 PM at 7100 St. Charles Avenue. Light drinks and snacks will be provided.
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 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.