Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World (Book)
David A. Livermore, Author.  Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009.

Ministry leaders often seek out multicultural information and behavioral tips when they want to communicate across cultures. But David Livermore asserts that truly following God's call to love others as ourselves requires inner transformation. Cultural Intelligence offers spiritual insight, self awareness, and practical responses to the problems of cultural difference.

Key to the book's practicality is the cultural intelligence quotient (CQ), which measures the ability to effectively bridge cultural divides. This quotient encompasses four factors: knowledge CQ (understanding cross-cultural issues); interpretive CQ (being mindful when communicating cross-culturally); perseverance CQ (remaining motivated to adapt cross-culturally); and behavioral CQ (appropriately changing actions when interacting cross-culturally).

Livermore helps readers understand that culture is contextual and undergirds what we think, how we live, and the way we view the world. He also shows how intercultural intelligence flourishes in diversity and is applicable to many settings. In Cultural Intelligence we learn that understanding race as both a barrier and a bridge to communication is important, that language is culture, that place shapes how we engage reality, and that people who live in close proximity may experience life differently.

Twenty-first-century church leaders everywhere, in settings old and new, need to become experienced cross-cultural emissaries with a desire to birth, nurture, and reproduce faith communities that are equipped to function in postmodern and socially pluralistic contexts. Cultural Intelligence offers insights and advice that can help leaders to become such emissaries.

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