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...
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...
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,...
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...
The Personal Loss that Centers Our Public Push for Birth Equity
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...
Remembering Rev. Fletcher Lowe, an original founder of VICPP and former executive director
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....
Sacred Memories: Confronting Historic Racial and Religious Violence to Counter Contemporary Injustices
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...
The Virginia Woman at the Foundation of Protecting Patient Autonomy
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 –...
Escorting the Elephant Out of the COVID Vaccine Room
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
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...
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