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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 a...

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 Commu...

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: Christiani...

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 Lit...

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 – &#...

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 CR...

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...

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 CR...

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 &#...

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...

This is our last week where we are going to take a journey back into our archive to play some of the best recordings the Antioch Podcast has made over the years on the topic of Critical Race Theory, or CRT for short. CRT has been around for a while first as a legal theory, … Continue reading Episode 250: The CRT Summer Series – “Let’s Talk About White Privilege”

For the next few weeks, we are going to take a journey back into our archive to play some of the best recordings the Antioch Podcast has made over the years on the topic of Critical Race Theory, or CRT for short. CRT has been around for a while first as a legal theory, and … Continue reading Episode 249: The CRT Summer Series – “An Interview with Kelly Hamren on CRT”

For the next few weeks, we are going to take a journey back into our archive to play some of the best recordings the Antioch Podcast has made over the years on the topic of Critical Race Theory, or CRT for short. CRT has been around for a while first as a legal theory, and … Continue reading Episode 248: The Summer CRT Series – “BLM and Traditional Biblical Sexuality”

For the next few weeks, we are going to take a journey back into our archive to play some of the best recordings the Antioch Podcast has made over the years on the topic of Critical Race Theory, or CRT for short. CRT has been around for a while first as a legal theory, and … Continue reading Episode 247: The CRT Summer Series – “Marxism and Biblical Justice”

For the next few weeks, we are going to take a journey back into our archive to play some of the best recordings the Antioch Podcast has made over the years on the topic of Critical Race Theory, or CRT for short. CRT has been around for a while first as a legal theory, and … Continue reading Episode 246: The CRT Summer Series – “Individual and Systemic Sin.”

For the next few weeks, we are going to take a journey back into our archive to play some of the best recordings the Antioch Podcast has made over the years on the topic of Critical Race Theory, or CRT for short. CRT has been around for a while first as a legal theory, and … Continue reading Episode 245: The CRT Summer Series – “Understanding Social Justice.”

For the next few weeks, we are going to take a journey back into our archive to play some of the best recordings the Antioch Podcast has made over the years on the topic of Critical Race Theory, or CRT for short. CRT has been around for a while first as a legal theory, and … Continue reading Episode 244: The CRT Summer Series: “What’s the Problem With CRT?”

This week the Antioch Podcast team gathers to hear Michelle as she talks with our team about our aggregate results as a podcast after taking the IDI – the Intercultural Development Inventory, the premier assessment of intercultural competence. We have a great conversation about feedback and our thoughts about where our team landed on the … Continue reading Episode 243: Intercultural Co...

Intercultural competence is a term often used within the diversity, equity and inclusion fields. Intercultural competence in its most simple form is the ability to function effectively across cultures by adapting our thinking and behavior, to work with people who are different from ourselves. On today’s episode, we will talk about what this means as … Continue reading Episode 242: Intercultu...

We are at the end of our series where we talk about the values that we have as a podcast team – values which then make it possible for us to have the kinds of conversations we have here every week. This week, we have a conversation about how we balance truth and grace in … Continue reading Episode 241: Antioch Podcast Values – “Grace, Truth & Justice.”

We are stepping away from our regular series on the book of Acts to bring you the audio from our latest live event, White Work: A Conversation About the Antiracism Journeys of White People. This 90-minute live webinar was recorded on Friday, April 23rd in partnership between the Antioch Podcast and Calvin University, the Christian … Continue reading Episode 240: An Antioch Encore “WHIT...