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Reflections on the summer: Affordable Housing

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...

Read more July 21, 2023 at 1:10 pm Sheila Herlihy

Reflections on the summer: Maternal Health and Civic Engagement

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...

Read more July 21, 2023 at 12:59 pm Sheila Herlihy

Putting myself in their shoes. / They bowed. They knelt. But they never rose. 

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,...

Read more February 1, 2023 at 5:00 pm Ayesha Taylor

Beyond Birth: Maternal health realities before and after the delivery room

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...

Read more July 4, 2022 at 9:25 pm Dora

My Ramadan, My Islam: Ramadan’s Interfaith Roots

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...

Read more April 13, 2022 at 5:30 am Ayesha Taylor

Together in Faith – By Sheila Herlihy, Dora Muhammad, Ayesha Taylor

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...

Read more April 13, 2022 at 1:53 am Dora

The budget is a moral document

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...

Read more February 28, 2022 at 4:36 pm Sheila Herlihy

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A Beacon for Truth and Racial Equity

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...

Read more December 29, 2021 at 12:31 pm Dora

Music Connecting Neighbors

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,...

Read more November 17, 2021 at 8:54 am Dora

Faith in Democracy

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...

Read more November 3, 2021 at 3:24 pm Dora
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