This past month and a half, I have been researching ‘Yes in God’s Backyard” (YIGBY) initiatives throughout the country. YIGBY builds upon the research I did this summer on church congregations using their underutilized...
Grace Randolph has been an intern through InterVarsity for Summer 2023. She is a rising second-year at the University of Richmond, majoring in Journalism. Over the last few months, she’s been able to do...
Aleshia Williams has been an intern through InterVarsity in Summer 2023. She is a rising third-year student at UVA, majoring in African and African American Studies. Over the last few months, she’s been able...
Just days ago, on Jan. 30, 2023, 400 Muslims gathered to pray in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, which sits along the border of Afghanistan. Unsuspecting worshipers raised their hands and recited Allahu Akbar,...
Over the long holiday weekend, I went to a family reunion… the first we’ve had in over two years. Of course, we shared lots of life updates, including my job here at VICPP. I...
In 2020, Delegate Marcia Price (95th District) boldly introduced a resolution in the House of Delegates to establish the observance of July as Maternal Health Awareness Month in Virginia. Responding to the alarming number...
Against the backdrop of VICPP team members observing the holiest days of their different faith traditions, VICPP Director of Communications Ayesha Gilani Taylor offers her perspective in a blog post as a Muslim observing...
We are in the middle of Passion Week, or Holy Week. This is a unique season wherein the three Abrahamic faiths observe one of their most sacred days in their respective traditions. Maundy Thursday...
On stewardship weekend in congregations all over Virginia, many of us have heard preaching about how our household budget needs to reflect our values and priorities. This means we give out of our personal...
by Dora Muhammad, VICPP Congregation Engagement Director The many hours I spent poring through the seven-volume report of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission drew me close to the mind and heart of its...
On the evening of November 13th, VICPP Board Member Hurunnessa Fariad taught a group of congregants at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. an Afghan song. Invited by the synagogue’s music director, Micah Hendler,...
by Dora Muhammad, VICPP Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager As I worked the polls at Fannie Fitzgerald Elementary School in Prince William County on Election Day yesterday, I reflected on the legacy...
by Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager I have a teddy bear that a relative gave me when she was a little girl. It was given to her when she was...
Fletcher In His Own Words: Read, “A pilgrimage not to be forgotten,” an essay published March 2020 in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on his pilgrimage to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery....
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager On May 1, 1865, formerly enslaved Blacks in Charleston, S.C. honored 257 Union soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a...
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager PHOTO CAPTION: Dora Muhammad with four granddaughters of Mrs. Henrietta Lacks and family at the 2017 symposium, “Issues of Blood: Rights & Responsibilities –...
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager PHOTO: VICPP Health Equity Program Manager Dora Muhammad participates in a state-run pop-up vaccination clinic held at First Mount Zion Baptist Church in Dumfries...
Black Pastors Help Win the Fight to Abolish the Death Penalty in Virginia “This monumental victory to abolish the death penalty in Virginia is a significant step in acknowledging the racist legacy of capital...
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager More than 100 people participated in our Day of All People listening session held Jan. 21st with immigrant leaders of LA RED (Liberation, Action,...
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy — In several days, Christians will culminate the holy observance of Advent in celebration of the birth of...
