Sunlight streams through the stained-glass windows as the choir sings during worship at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in New Orleans in July 2025.

The Rev. Darryl Tate views the ruined sanctuary of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in New Orleans for the first time since he fled Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. An overturned grand piano rests in the foreground. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.

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