As our nation approaches its 250th anniversary, we stand at a critical evolutionary crossroads. The promise of American pluralism has never been a static artifact of the past, it is a living, breathing covenant that each generation must expand, deepen, and renew. This interfaith webinar, featuring Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign’s Executive Director Nina Fernando, invites spiritual activists, faith leaders, and justice-seekers to move beyond mere religious tolerance and provide tools to engage in deep, active pluralism.

In this mid-term election year, there has been a resurgence in politicians stoking fears about sharia, or Islamic law. What is sharia, anyway? Is it really a threat to the U.S. Constitution? Is it similar to Jewish and Christian notion of religious law? Why are politicians talking about it—or seeking to ban it—again? How is the rhetoric about sharia connected to the broader surge in Islamophobia that we’re seeing right now? How do these efforts affect Muslims—and potentially all Americans? How can faith leaders talk to our religious congregations about this?

Join us virtually as we explore these questions and more with our expert panel.

Join We Are All America's Leadership Development Program for a workshop exploring how immigrant and refugee leaders can build strong, intersectional coalitions with other justice movements to expand collective power and long term impact. In this training, you will learn how immigrant and refugee rights intersect with other justice and liberation movements, and practical coalition building strategies that prioritize shared values, shared leadership, and shared victories. This workshop features Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign’s Executive Director, Nina Fernando. Learn more and register here.

You're invited to join an Interfaith Iftar Dinner in Portage, MI, on Saturday, March 14 at 6:30 pm. This event is co-hosted by the Intercultural Association of Michigan, Grand Valley State University Kaufman Interfaith Institute, The Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign, International Campus Ministry, and Reformed Church in America. RSVP to attend here.

Join us for a free and family-friendly dinner gathering to meet your neighbors, engage in conversation, and enjoy a delicious meal catered by Sheshco Mediterranean Grill. All are welcome, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Registration is required.

Register here: gvsu.edu/interfaith/iftar

This event is sponsored by the Intercultural Association of Michigan, Kaufman Interfaith Institute at Grand Valley State University, and the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign

Hosted by Challenging Islamophobia Together Chicagoland and the Illinois Conference of Churches

How can Christians respond faithfully and courageously to the rise of anti-Muslim prejudice? Join clergy and lay leaders from across Illinois for a day of reflection, learning, and action at the Christians Challenging Islamophobia Conference.

This gathering will feature a “Faith Over Fear” training led by Shoulder to Shoulder, a national coalition equipping faith communities to stand with their Muslim neighbors. Participants will also engage a hands-on workshop led by Rev. Dr. Anna Piela and Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf, co-founders of Challenging Islamophobia Together Chicagoland and co-authors of Confronting Islamophobia in the Church: Liturgical Tools for Justice (Judson Press, 2026).

Together, we’ll explore how congregations can root out fear-based narratives, build authentic interfaith partnerships, and embody the Gospel’s call to love our neighbors without exception.

Lunch will be provided.
This event is open to clergy and active laypeople of all denominations who want to move from awareness to faithful action.

Learn more and register here

In recent years, numerous Christian scholars have published books about Islamophobia. Why did they write these books? What insights do their books have for us amid rising anti-Muslim discrimination? How might Christian churches and denominations make use of these important resources today? What lessons or approaches can all of us, regardless of our background or faith tradition, learn from these books?

Join us virtually on February 26 at 12pm Eastern time for a conversation with some of these authors. Learn more and register here.

This month, we mark the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions, an official declaration of Vatican II, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, signed in 1965. What does this old church declaration mean for us today? What does it have to do with the work of building pluralism more broadly, and what does it mean specifically for the mission of the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign?

Join us for a conversation with theologian, author, and professor, Jordan Denari Duffner and Mobashra Tazamal from The Bridge Initiative at Georgetown where we’ll highlight relevant themes from the 1965 declaration, name the many challenges of this current moment, explore a newly available audience-specific resource on anti-Muslim bigotry, and identify our many calls to action today.

Learn more and register here.

Abraham’s Bridge is an award-winning documentary highlighting an experiment in intentional proximity in the American Midwest, the Tri-Faith Initiative in Omaha, NE. The Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign is collaborating on this event with the Rumi Forum and the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington in the Washington, DC area.

Learn more and register here.

A Workshop with The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding & The Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign on Black Christian Views & Perceptions of American Muslims and Islam.

In conversations about Islamophobia, why are Black Christian perspectives so often missing—especially when Black Muslims are central to the American Muslim story? Why do some Black Christians hold Islamophobic views—even when a significant portion of the American Muslim population is also Black? How does anti-Blackness within some Muslim communities impact Black Christian-Muslim solidarity? New research begins to answer these questions, and many others. Join us on September 24th. Faith leaders and anyone working in the multifaith space are especially encouraged to attend.

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Join the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign for a live virtual screening of Episode Six from the groundbreaking PBS documentary series, “American Muslims: A History Revealed,” followed by a panel discussion with the Executive Producer and Featured hosts of the series.

In this time when Muslim and immigrant communities are among those being targeted in increasingly dangerous and harmful ways, it's more important than ever to uplift real stories and histories of who American Muslims are in all their diversity and beauty, and to highlight their rich fabric in our country's tapestry since the founding of our nation (and even before). We hope you'll join us for this important event coinciding with the celebration of our country's founding (July 4th).

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Join Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign’s Local Partners and Program Coordinator, Becca Tyvoll, on RFPUSA’s monthly webinar, where she’ll share about our new resource, “Loving our Muslim Neighbors: A Resource for Evangelical Christians.”

Taking place on Juneteenth, this conversation will highlight our continued work towards a U.S. where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, uplifting a resource that furthers our work of addressing anti-Muslim discrimination by helping new audiences to understand the impact this form of racism has on all of us. The guide includes practical steps to take towards loving our Muslim neighbors, understanding that our freedom is bound up in one another.

Learn more and register here.

Join the The Shoulder to Shoulder Implementation Team for the Christian Reformed Church in North America and the Reformed Church in America in Grand Rapids, MI for a special program on Building Belonging & Peace Across Difference: Living into the Christian Call Nowat Calvin Theological Seminary with featured speakers, Ruth Padilla DeBorst, Martin Accad, and Gary Burge. This in-person event will give participants the opportunity to explore theological and practical elements of what it means to live out the Christian call to build belonging and peace across differences today, and engage with each other on what that call looks like in our own lives.

Learn more here.

In this online event, Nina M. Fernando, Executive Director of the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign, will engage in conversation with Zeyneb Sayilgan about the work of her organization and the commitment it shares with ICJS of challenging Islamophobia and fostering greater interreligious understanding.

Learn more and register here.

Join the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign in a virtual workshop with Amy McIsaac, Managing Director for Learning and Experimentation at PACE (Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement): How to Talk Bridgey: Connecting Across Divides. This workshop is based on PACE’s guide How to Talk Bridgey, a report of their Civic Languages Perceptions Project on Americans' perceptions of civic language. The result of five years of dedicated research, this guide for Americans is about how to use civic language in a way that the broadest audience can connect to it. The workshop will be followed by a 30-minute conversation with Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign partners and friends.

Learn more and register here.

Can taking a pause and reflecting on gratitude be of help or is it a naive, neutralizing, and shallow exercise?

Who are American Muslims? What is Islamophobia and how does it show up in society? What can we do about it? Executive Director of the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign, Nina Fernando, will facilitate this special program at California State University, Long Beach on Understanding & Countering Anti-Muslim Discrimination in the U.S.

Who are American Muslims? What is Islamophobia and how does it show up in society? What can we do about it? Executive Director of the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign, Nina Fernando, will facilitate this special program at California State University, Long Beach on Understanding & Countering Anti-Muslim Discrimination in the U.S.

Join Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign Executive Director Nina Fernando at the National Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom East Coast conference in Brunswick, NJ for a workshop based on the Faith-Rooted Primer for Understanding & Addressing Bigotry in the U.S. amid the Violence in Israel-Palestine.

Registration and Information on the conference.

The Office of Equity and Inclusion at Montgomery Community College is hosting this special program on Understanding & Countering Anti-Muslim Discrimination for employees only.

The program will be facilitated by Rev. Cassandra Lawrence, Director of Strategic Communications for the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign and Erum Ikramullah, Senior Research Project Manager at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.

Join this conversation online or in-person, moderated by Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign Executive Director Nina Fernando. American Jews and Muslims come together to discuss the moral responsibility of (inter)faith leaders in addressing the ongoing conflict in Israel-Palestine. The conversation will center on the deep trauma experienced by many, both historically and in the present, in light of the dehumanizing Anti-Muslim and Anti-Semitic rhetoric in the U.S.

This event is co-hosted by American Islamic College, InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary, Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign, and Center of Christian-Muslim Engagement for Peace and Justice.

More Information and Registration.

Join Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign Executive Director Nina Fernando at the National Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom West Coast conference in Sacramento, CA for a workshop based on the Faith-Rooted Primer for Understanding & Addressing Bigotry in the U.S. amid the Violence in Israel-Palestine.

Registration and Information on the conference.

What is Islamophobia in the United States and what can we do about it? Join us in DC for a timely interfaith discussion.