2025 proved what happens when a community decides to “Stay for the Story”—small acts of love, done steadily, turned into hundreds of meals, new friendships, deeper partnerships, and a growing web of neighbors who refuse to give up on one another. If this year is any sign, the story unfolding in 2026 will be even more courageous, more connected, and more full of love.

We’re building a spiritual community that strengthens the good already happening in New Orleans—connecting churches, neighbors, and partners so love can move farther, faster, together. This is the future of Just Love: everyday people choosing curiosity, compassion, and presence right where they live.

Just Love has become this beautiful, imperfect web of people choosing curiosity, compassion, and connection in real time. From unhoused neighbors in Central City to foster families, interfaith partners, and the growing Curious Krewe, we’re discovering that love becomes a story when you actually live it.

Just Love began the way most sacred things do—in conversation and community. Around a table of curious, imperfect people, we started asking better questions, listening to our neighbors, and learning that healing begins when we simply show up to love, body, mind, and soul.

In a world that often walks away from hard conversations, we keep choosing to stay. Because somewhere between the heartbreak and the hope, listening—real listening—becomes an act of peace, and our lives become the stories we long to tell.

Storytelling isn’t just communication—it’s spiritual practice. When we share and receive stories, we connect to one another, to the sacred, and to the deeper truth that we’re never as alone as we think.

Social media has a way of becoming the lens we see the world through—sometimes clarifying, sometimes distorting. The challenge (and the gift) is learning to stay curious about the stories we scroll past, the biases we bring, and the impact our own posts have on the bigger picture.

Everyone in New Orleans has a Katrina story—loud or quiet, cracked around the edges or full of resilience—and when we share them, we begin to heal. Storytelling isn’t just remembering the past, it’s how we see each other, know we matter, and find the courage to move forward together.

Silence lets the wounds fester, while story brings them into the light where healing has a chance. Sometimes the most sacred act isn’t speaking…it’s listening so deeply that someone else’s story takes root in you.

I've found healing. I've found forgiveness, for my dad and for myself.

There's something powerful about the stories we inherit, especially those that were never written down or discussed in therapy.

Healing doesn't always come from pushing those stories away. Sometimes, healing begins when we actually face them.

A groundbreaking study from Princeton University revealed that when someone tells a story, and someone else listens attentively, their brains actually begin to sync up.

Stories are how we make sense of the chaos of life—and how we find each other in the middle of it. When we name them and share them, what once felt disjointed becomes the very thing that connects us.

So what does being curious about yourself actually look like? It could start with questions like....

So what does being curious about yourself actually look like? It could start with questions like....

Curiosity is often the first step toward love.

What if curiosity isn't a threat to faith but the very thing that makes it deeper, richer, and more alive?

But where does this saying come from, and does curiosity deserve such a bad reputation?

Curiosity is the secret sauce that inspires innovation and creates change, not just on a large-scale societal change but on the smallest of scales...ourselves.