The Antioch Podcast

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 262: 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.”