Latest Multi-cultural Podcast Episodes
Continuing #1: Decolonization - from the inside out.
Open Out - March 25, 2021 15:00 - 38 minutesThis is the first in our final series of podcasts, called 'Continuing'. Here we are looking at resources for individuals and faith communities who have been engaged in the process of intentionally opening outwards to welcome cultural diversity. These episodes are perhaps a bit more complex/techn...
Continuing #1; Decolonization - from the inside out.
Open Out - March 25, 2021 15:00 - 38 minutesThis is the first in our final series of podcasts, called 'Continuing'. Here we are looking at resources for individuals and faith communities who have been engaged in the process of intentionally opening outwards to welcome cultural diversity. These episodes are perhaps a bit more complex/techn...
Commencing 6: Finding the heart beat (Part 2)
Open Out - March 02, 2021 21:00 - 49 minutesThis is the second of two episodes exploring the vital role of music in creating and sustaining intercultural / intentionally open faith communities. Once again we draw on our conversation with Scottish hymn-writer and global music pioneer, John Bell, but in this episode we focus on specifics: ...
Commencing 6: Finding the heart beat. Part 2.
Open Out - March 02, 2021 21:00 - 49 minutesThis is the second of two episodes exploring the vital role of music in creating and sustaining intercultural / intentionally open faith communities. Once again we draw on our conversation with Scottish hymn-writer and global music pioneer, John Bell, but in this episode we focus on specifics: ...
Commencing 5: Finding the Heartbeat
Open Out - February 22, 2021 23:00 - 31 minutesThis is the first in a two-part series exploring the vital role that music plays in building both intercultural community and cross-cultural connection. More than simply a pretty add-on to a worship service, music is a language of the heart itself, expressing all the struggle and triumph of sim...
Commencing 4: Storytelling, deep listening & disengaging expectations: The challenge of intercultural decision-making
Open Out - November 14, 2020 16:00 - 46 minutesWhile group decision-making is never easy, when the group making decisions is diverse - with some collectivists, some individualists, some direct communicators, others indirect, some top-down, and others bottom-up - it's a mix that regularly leads to misunderstanding, frustration, and communicat...
Storytelling, deep listening & disengaging expectations: The challenge of intercultural decision-making
Open Out - November 14, 2020 16:00 - 46 minutesWhile group decision-making is never easy, when the group making decisions is diverse - with some collectivists, some individualists, some direct communicators, others indirect, some top-down, and others bottom-up - it's a mix that regularly leads to misunderstanding, frustration, and communicat...
Commencing 3: Space, Place & Displacement
Open Out - October 26, 2020 15:00 - 29 minutesThe third in our Commencing Series looks at "place" in our faith communities. As we open to people who are somehow different than those who have been there in the past - what are we offering them? Just space? Or a place? Placemaking involves design [or re-design] processes for transforming publ...
Commencing 2: Decluttering Concepts
Open Out - October 13, 2020 03:00 - 27 minutes"The more words you use, the less sense you make - how does that help anyone?" (Ecc 6:11). Apparently most intercultural researchers, theorists and trainers missed that wee verse. Intercultural competency. Cultural intelligence. Cultural humility. Constructive marginality. Intercultural sensitiv...
Commencing 1: The Edge Effect
Open Out - September 28, 2020 21:00 - 29 minutesWe begin our second season by looking at the critical elements in the lives of folk who are part of communities that are opening out, actively engaged in the process of opening themselves to welcome those who are somehow different. In our first episode we look at The Edge Effect in faith commun...
Re-Opening: Committed 7: The Problem of Invitation
Open Out - June 16, 2020 02:00 - 27 minutesThis last episode in our Committed series looks at the challenge of re-opening our churches in the midst of the racial tensions that have been pulsing through our cities over the last number of weeks. How do Black Lives Matter and Intercultural Church connect? The title was originally The Power ...
Committed 7: Re-Opening - The Problem of Invitation
Open Out - June 16, 2020 02:00 - 27 minutesThis last episode in our Committed series looks at the challenge of re-opening our churches in the midst of the racial tensions that have been pulsing through our cities over the last number of weeks. How do Black Lives Matter and Intercultural Church connect? The title was originally The Power ...
Committed 7: Re-Opening - The Problem of Invitation
Open Out - June 16, 2020 02:00 - 27 minutesThis last episode in our Committed series looks at the challenge of re-opening our churches in the midst of the racial tensions that have been pulsing through our cities over the last number of weeks. How do Black Lives Matter and Intercultural Church connect? The title was originally The Power ...
Ep 14 Re-Opening: The Problem of Invitation (Committed 7)
Open Out - June 16, 2020 02:00 - 27 minutesThis last episode in our Committed series looks at the challenge of re-opening our churches in the midst of the racial tensions that have been pulsing through our cities over the last number of weeks. How do Black Lives Matter and Intercultural Church connect? The title was originally The Power ...
Committed 6: De-shuttering worship #2 - Ubunye, Ubuntu & Amandla
Open Out - June 08, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutesThis episode, a bit more technical, drawing on the wisdom of Michael Blair (Director of Church in Mission for national UC) and others, looks at the challenge of creating worship that can engage North American born folk [individualist culture] and newcomers & indigenous [collectivist]. The chur...
Committed 6: De-shuttering worship (Part 2) - Ubunye, Ubuntu & Amandla
Open Out - June 08, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutesThis episode, a bit more technical, drawing on the wisdom of Michael Blair (Director of Church in Mission for national UC) and others, looks at the challenge of creating worship that can engage North American born folk [individualist culture] and newcomers & indigenous [collectivist]. The chur...
Ep13: De-shuttering worship 2: Ubunye, Ubuntu & Amandla
Open Out - June 08, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutesThis episode, a bit more technical, drawing on the wisdom of Michael Blair (Director of Church in Mission for national UC) and others, looks at the challenge of creating worship that can engage North American born folk [individualist culture] and newcomers & indigenous [collectivist]. The chur...
Riots and Comfort Christianity (Live)
Common Hymnal: An Uncommon Podcast - June 04, 2020 16:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsBrandi and Brittney take to Instagram Live once more to create an open space for grief and processing amid George Floyd’s killing....Taking questions, responding to comments and allowing the real time conversation with participants guide the flow of the hour. For more go to: www.commonhymnal.co...
Committed 5: De-shuttering Worship #1 -Diving deep with the 90%!
Open Out - June 01, 2020 06:00 - 32 minutesThis episode, # 5 in our Committed series, was published during Pentecost 2020, the festival of intended inclusion, just as America is rocked by racial pain that can no longer be contained, the reality of exclusion. We are are beginning consider how we will, sometime soon, de-shutter our churche...
Committed 5: De-shuttering Worship 1 -Diving deep with the 90%!
Open Out - June 01, 2020 06:00 - 32 minutesThis episode, # 5 in our Committed series, was published during Pentecost 2020, the festival of intended inclusion, just as America is rocked by racial pain that can no longer be contained, the reality of exclusion. We are are beginning consider how we will, sometime soon, de-shutter our churche...
Committed 5: De-shuttering Worship (Part 1) -Diving deep with the 90%!
Open Out - June 01, 2020 06:00 - 32 minutesThis episode, # 5 in our Committed series, was published during Pentecost 2020, the festival of intended inclusion, just as America is rocked by racial pain that can no longer be contained, the reality of exclusion. We are are beginning consider how we will, sometime soon, de-shutter our churche...
Ep.12. Committed 5. Opening worship outwards: diving deep with the 90%
Open Out - June 01, 2020 06:00 - 32 minutesThis episode, published during Pentecost 2020, the festival of intended inclusion, just as America is rocked by racial pain that can no longer be contained, the reality of exclusion - just as we are are beginning to re-open our shuttered churches. Perhaps it is time not simply to re-open, but to...
Ep.12. De-shuttering Worship (1): diving deep with the 90%!
Open Out - June 01, 2020 06:00 - 32 minutesThis episode, # 5 in our Committed series, was published during Pentecost 2020, the festival of intended inclusion, just as America is rocked by racial pain that can no longer be contained, the reality of exclusion. We are are beginning consider how we will, sometime soon, de-shutter our churche...
Black Boy Run: The Virus of Injustice (Live)
Common Hymnal: An Uncommon Podcast - May 25, 2020 23:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIn today's episode, Brandi Miller and Brittney Spencer go live on Instagram. This is used as a space for folks to come together, engage, and grieve during the difficult week of Sean Reed and Ahmaud Arbery's videos being released, and recorded before the newest tragedy of George Floyd. We hope th...
Committed 4: How many kisses are necessary? How differences affect us (Part 2)
Open Out - May 25, 2020 05:00 - 29 minutesHave you noticed? Even greeting each other can be tricky... should we bow [who first?], shake hands, kiss [one cheek or two? How many times?] Often the things we stumble over in our cross-cultural relationships aren't the big things - but the myriad little things. We are expecting one thing to h...
Committed 4: How many kisses are necessary? (How differences affect us #2)
Open Out - May 25, 2020 05:00 - 29 minutesHave you noticed? Even greeting each other can be tricky... should we bow [who first?], shake hands, kiss [one cheek or two? How many times?] Often the things we stumble over in our cross-cultural relationships aren't the big things - but the myriad little things. We are expecting one thing to h...
Ep.11. Committed 4: How differences affect us (2): How many kisses are necessary?
Open Out - May 25, 2020 05:00 - 29 minutesHave you noticed? Even greeting each other can be tricky... should we bow [who first?], shake hands, kiss [one cheek or two? How many times?] Often the things we stumble over in our cross-cultural relationships aren't the big things - but the myriad little things. We are expecting one thing to h...
Ep.10. Committed 3. Is your 'me' a 'we'? How differences affect us 1
Open Out - May 18, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutesIs your 'me' a 'we'? It's an important question! This episode is the first of two looking at key differences in the ways people from different cultures think, feel, and make decisions - how they act and react. Today we focus on that core question: What does your 'me' look like? An individual? Or...
Committed 3: Is your 'me' a 'we'? (How differences affect us #1)
Open Out - May 18, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutesIs your 'me' a 'we'? It's an important question! This episode is the first of two looking at key differences in the ways people from different cultures think, feel, and make decisions - how they act and react. Today we focus on that core question: What does your 'me' look like? An individual? Or...
Committed 3: Is your 'me' a 'we'? How differences affect us (Part 1)
Open Out - May 18, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutesIs your 'me' a 'we'? It's an important question! This episode is the first of two looking at key differences in the ways people from different cultures think, feel, and make decisions - how they act and react. Today we focus on that core question: What does your 'me' look like? An individual? Or...
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