The Antioch Podcast

This is our 200th episode of the Antioch Podcast, and our team gathered around the mics today to look back at what we’ve learned over the years leading up to now. We started as a podcast way back in the last few months of the Obama presidency in 2016, and so much has changed in … Continue reading Episode 200: Our 200th Episode! – “What We Have Learned So Far.”

This is part 2 of our two-episode conversation called Antiracism vs. Compositional Diversity: Why seeking justice matters to have true unity in Christian spaces. This live conversation was part of the Unlearn program offered at Calvin University through the Center for Intercultural Student Development. During this week, students, faculty, and the community are invited to … Continue reading Episode 199: Antiracism vs. Compositional Diversity Part 2 of 2

Unlearn week is a yearly program offered at Calvin University through the Center for Intercultural Student Development. During this week, students, faculty, and the community are invited to educational events and forums to learn and have conversations designed to unlearn biases and promote Biblical antiracism. The Antioch Podcast team was invited to participate in this … Continue reading Episode 198: Antiracism vs. Compositional Diversity part 1 of 2

For the past few years, the Antioch Podcast has partnered with the Christian Reformed Church of North America’s Office of Race Relations, Calvin University, and the YWCA in their annual Stand Against Racism events, as well as some other antiracism education livestream events. For the next several weeks, we will bring you encore episodes of … Continue reading Episode 197: White Work II – “Understanding Whiteness and Rightness.”

For the past few years, the Antioch Podcast has partnered with the Christian Reformed Church of North America’s Office of Race Relations, Calvin University, and the YWCA in their annual Stand Against Racism events, as well as some other antiracism education livestream events. For the next several weeks, we will bring you encore episodes of … Continue reading Episode 196: White Work – “Antiracism Journeys of White People.”

There have been hearings in recent weeks about the insurrection that took place on January 6th, 2022 when self-described white nationalists and others – some waving Christian flags – broke in to the capitol building. It was a time when for a while we had bipartisan condemnation of this attack on the nation’s capitol… a … Continue reading Episode 195: An Antioch Encore – “Before Unity – January 6, 2020”

So you meet someone for the first time, and you have just a couple moments to try to make some assumptions about them so you can have a conversation. You have very little information to go by, and most of it is based on how they look, how they sound, and what if anything you … Continue reading Episode 194: Stereotypes – “When Our Preconceptions Blew Up.”

Michelle Loyd Paige is one of the 6 co-hosts of the Antioch Podcast you have gotten to know over the past few years. Some of you listen because Michelle is on the podcast, and some of you keep listening because while you don’t know Michelle personally, you feel like you do after listening so long. … Continue reading Episode 193: Michelle Loyd-Paige – “Transitions: Knowing When To Move On.”

I live in a pretty diverse area. I can go to a number of grocery stores in my neighborhood and see people from many racial and ethnic communities all shopping for the things they need to feed their families. But there is one, large grocery store in my are that is part of a regional … Continue reading Episode 192: Belonging – “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.”

The Serenity Prayer is perhaps one of the most well known prayers spoken by millions of people in recovery programs around the world every day. It goes like this: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change The courage to change the things I can And the wisdom to know the … Continue reading Episode 191: “Living With What We Can’t’ Control.”