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The Intercultural Development Inventory is a tool to help individuals and organizations assess their cultural competence and chart a path to increase this competence over time.  Last year, we took the IDI as a team, and since then, we have reflected on and grown from the information we learned from the experience. On today’s episode, … Continue reading Episode 270: The Intercultural Development Inventory – “Kissing Doesn’t Count.”

The Intercultural Development Inventory is a tool to help individuals and organizations assess their cultural competence and chart a path to increase this competence over time.  Last year, we took the IDI as a team, and since then, we have reflected on and grown from the information we learned from the experience. On today’s episode, … Continue reading Episode 269: The Intercultural Development Inventory – “Cultural Humility.”

This Antioch Encore was originally recorded and released in 2020 Songs:  O Come All Ye Faithful 2.  Silent Night 3.  Angels We Have Heard on High 4.  O Little Town of Bethlehem 5.  Sweet Little Jesus Boy 6.  Come Thou Long Expected Jesus 7.  Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming 8.  Hark the Herald Angels … Continue reading Episode 268: An Antioch Christmas Encore – “A Musical Christmas Special.”

This is an encore episode of the Antioch Podcast recorded in 2022. We are a diverse group of Christian antiracism educators and friends who gather every week to share stories of our lives, which some of the time has to do directly with our experiences as antiracism educators. We also are whole people – people … Continue reading Episode 267: An Antioch Christmas Encore – “Our Christmas Memories.”

I know that I don’t tend to sit down and ask people, “Hey, what do you think about CRT?” probably because I don’t know what I’d hear… or maybe I do have a guess about what they might say and I’m self-protectively trying to avoid arguments and anger in the event that my guess was … Continue reading Episode 266: Christianity and CRT – “Reflections on the Journey.”

Before his eventual execution for being a Christian, the apostle Paul wrote these words from his Roman prison cell, “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.” He knew … Continue reading Episode 265: Christianity and CRT – “A New Hope.”

As a child, it always was a little bit embarrassing for me when my mother worked as a substitute teacher for my elementary school class. It wasn’t that my mom was a bad teacher. It was quite the opposite, actually. My mother was a riveting and dynamic teacher who made learning fun, and as one … Continue reading Episode 264: Robert Chao Romero & Jeff M. Liou – “Christianity and CRT.”

When Senator John Lewis died on July 17, 2020, the New York Times published his letter “Together You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation” which he had written three days before his death as his last address to the nation. In this letter, he talked about his hopes for the beloved community, which he … Continue reading Episode 263: Christianity and CRT – “CRT & The Beloved Community.”

When you enter a space what percentage of people in that space need to look like you in order for you to feel comfortable? Sometimes for me that number is one, but only if I’m with the right people. As a white man married to a Chinese woman, I remember some of the first times … Continue reading Episode 362: Christianity and CRT – “Institutional Colorblindness.”

In 1958, Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested in Virginia for being an interracial couple. They fought back against their arrest, and their case, Loving vs. Virginia eventually reached the Supreme Court. They won their case on June 12th, 1967 – nine years after their arrest. This case overturned decades of laws against interracial marriage … Continue reading Episode 261: Christianity and CRT – “Responding to Demographic Change.”

What is overt and covert about racism? I remember when I first started learning about racism as a young white man. I grew up in a rural community, had recently joined a multiethnic church, and was doing a lot of reading and making friends with people of color. I was learning a lot about the … Continue reading Episode 260: Christianity and CRT – “Overt and Covert Racism Plus a Little Bit of Hope.”

What does it mean that racism is ordinary? Jim Wallace wrote a book a number of years ago called “America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America” whose title aptly described racism as the sin condition which most profoundly shaped America from the colonial period forward. From this vantage point, … Continue reading Episode 259: Christianity and CRT – “Sin, Racism and the Avoidance of Guilt.”

In today’s session Jane and Michelle pause from the discussion of the book Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation by Robert Chao Romero and Jeff M. Liou to reflect on what they have read. Both Michelle and Jane identify key takeaways from the introduction and first chapter. They also make connections … Continue reading Episode 258: Christianity and CRT – “The Impact of CRT Talk.”

So I’m a white guy, and I used to never think about my whiteness when I went anywhere, and for sure for sure I never sat around with other white people and talked about our whiteness. I’ve never sat around with other white people and asked, “When was the last time you thought about your … Continue reading Episode 257: Christianity and CRT – “Who Gets to Be Legally White?”

In the book of Revelations, John is presented with a vision of the end of time when people from around the world are worshiping God in Heaven. The glory and honor of their cultures is present and nothing impure is there … but what exactly is the good stuff about our cultures, and what’s the … Continue reading Episode 256: Christianity and CRT – “Glory and Honor of Nations.”

As a therapist, I see people who often come to my office who self-identify as “broken.” They may come in making poor eye contact, telling me a story of how they were victimized, or perhaps made some choices they regret. Sometimes they have experienced a long string of disappointing or tragic events that now has … Continue reading Episode 255: Christianity and CRT – “Community and Cultural Wealth.”

I have a lot of fond childhood memories listening to my uncles and grandpa tell fishing stories. Almost always, the stories seemed to be larger-than-life adventures full of excitement and laughter as they reenacted the scenes of reeling in gamefish from the Michigan lakes where they spent weekends together. It seemed, however, that the hero … Continue reading Episode 254: Christianity and CRT – “Who Gets to Tell the Story?”

So we have slowly been talking about the book Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation by Robert Chao Romero and Jeff M. Liou to understand how these authors see Critical Race Theory as a helpful bridge for Christian witness, theological reflection, and pastoral ministry. In order to do that, it is … Continue reading Episode 253: Christianity and CRT – “Four Founding Tenets of CRT.”

Critical Race Theory is in the news a lot these days, but many people don’t exactly know what it is.  I had a conversation just the other day with someone about this. They thought that they knew what it was, and they definitely thought that they were against it… and when we started talking about … Continue reading Episode 252: Christianity and CRT – “What Exactly Is CRT Anyway?”

At our house, we love to go out to eat.  We live in a small city, so we get excited when a new restaurant opens, especially if the chef brings an ethnic flavor to the menu.  But we don’t just eat what some people might consider “ethnic food”, because all food is someone’s ethnic food.  … Continue reading Episode 251: Christianity and CRT – “When Did You First Recognize Structural Racism?”