Metro-Urban Institute

For academic year 2024-2025, the Metro-Urban Institute (MUI) is focused on partnering with others to transform traumas rooted in violence in our communities. This helps us to lean into our focus area of faith and freedom as we center the ways that the Christian faith and our inclusive view of the Imago Dei, leads us to create safe spaces where all people are able to live free of violence and individual and communal traumas.

Values and Priorities

With core values of mutuality, justice, service, hospitality, and diversity, MUI offers academically sound and contextually rich conferences and symposiums to equip and empower churches and faith-based organizations to challenge injustices and meet the critical needs of urban communities.

We focus on delivering relevant programming, actionable research, and empowering engagement through our contextual learning and ministry experiences which focus on: Jesus and Justice; Faith and Freedom; Hope and Health; and Arts and Activism.