Micah Intensives
If your church is ready for courageous conversation about racism, immigration, or any of the topics below, we can provide a facilitator to help you get started. Contact us to learn more about scheduling a private Micah Intensive.
Disabilities to Differences
100% of people have limiting differences.
15% have differences that require special adjustments in daily life.
Environment
Pope Francis’s first encyclical, “Laudato Si,” was released June 18, 2015 and called for a global, interfaith, ecumenical movement to address climate change. It was viewed as a “blistering indictment of the human failure to care for the earth...a poignant description of the momentous choice now confronting every government, corporation, and person on the planet” (The New Yorker).
Gun Violence
The divisions among American Christians on gun control are influenced by social location and ethnicity—and they are sustained by theology. We must fully identify and attend to these differing theological convictions in order to better understand why they drive U.S. Christians to take different public positions on addressing gun violence.
Healthcare
“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”
— United Nations General Assembly, 1948
Immigration
The population of the world is literally shifting. People are being displaced and are in need of help, safety, and new beginnings. Whether due to violence, war, asylum, reuniting families, or people seeking a new life, this displacement has deep implications for the church both globally and locally.
Income Inequality
“Massive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges of our times—times in which the world boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry, and wealth accumulation—that they have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social evils.”
— Nelson Mandela, 2005
Israel/Palestine
Israel/Palestine is a sacred place to all Abrahamic faiths, considered to be “The Holy Land.” For many Christians, the tender emotions are also mixed with concern over the ongoing tensions and conflict. What might it look like to hold God’s love, justice, mercy, peace, and hope as the lens through which we view the realities of this sacred land?
Mass Incarceration
The current imprisonment of Americans is unprecedented in its magnitude compared to anywhere else in the world and in any other time in human history. How are Christians to respond to this complex issue?
Public Education
“Quality education is the best way to empower the poorest, most disadvantaged children. Educational opportunity is the new civil rights struggle.”
—Ronald J. Sider in Just Generosity
Racism
Everything about the topic of racism is contested and laden with pain. This content will only touch the surface of the diverse perspectives and rich literature on racism and reconciliation that is available today. Therefore, it must begin with an apology to all who’ve struggled, sacrificed, and led in this difficult work. The pain and promise of this pursuit are clear.
Urban Renewal
Cities are centers of industry, centers of diversity, and centers of creativity in our world. In our contemporary context, cities are where most of the people in the world are. We are called to love the city, preach to the city, identify with the city, and serve the city.
Advanced
“Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation. It knows no boundaries, geographical, cultural, or economic. While it continues, we cannot say that we have really progressed towards equality, development, and peace.”
—Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations.