Our Focus

Micah Forum event topics would fall into these initial categories, with expansion based on leadership consensus:

 

Social issues both local and global

  • Equity, equality, gender, and race:  historical and spiritual roots of injustice

  • Bias: Unconscious and otherwise

  • Racism, Reconciliation and Racial Justice

  • Opioid crisis

  • Politics

  • Poverty alleviation - local and global

  • Welcoming the stranger, immigration, refugees

  • Health care (reform) disparities

  • Policing and law enforcement reform

  • Violence as an epidemic

  • Pandemic

  • Fake news, freedom of the press, and the future of journalism

  • Sex trafficking problem in Baltimore

Science and Technology

  • Artificial intelligence and the future of humanity

  • Genes, race, gender and the idea of making the perfect human

  • The technology to kill: weapons of war, the death penalty,  assisted suicide and euthanasia

  • The internet and social media

Religion and faith

  • Church (and mission) during the pandemic

  • Equity in the support of indigenous missionaries and Bible scholars

  • Sacrifice, risk, limited resources, and ethics

  • Faith and work

  • The biblical interpretation and postmodernism

  • Bible and sexuality

  • Bi-vocational ministry and Christian mission