Rev. Troy Lawrence Sr. of Reaping the Harvest chuch in the Lower Ninth Ward talks about gun violence last summer at a peace festival sponsored by the city.
One of the most iconic cemeteries in New Orleans, St. Louis No. 1 Cemetery, now requires visitors to enter with a licensed tour guide or official proof that a family member is buried there.
"I’ve been a Buddhist for a number of years, and I chant every day, and one of the things that I strongly believe in is that moment of silence, of reflection, for everybody to sit down and be still for a second." More →
"We got to know our neighbors in the surrounding community in a way we probably wouldn’t have otherwise, because we did all have to work through it together. And so in these last 10 years I would say we have been much more part of the community where we’ve been a building for over a hundred years," says David duPlantier, dean of Episcopal Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans. More →
Dr. Timothy Cahill is associate professor of Asian religions at Loyola University New Orleans. From 1998-2006, he led a project to map the religious... Read more about Timothy Cahill
tccahill@loyno.edu
Loyola University
New Orleans, LA
