Episode 10:  Disruptive Educator In this week’s episode we speak with the lovely Jasmine Ward, an educator that teaches in the Los Angeles County Jail System. She talks to us about how she disrupts the peace by courageously voicing how the injustice of many of our systems have impacted the lives of the incarcerated while emphasizing the dignity and the humanity that is often disregarded when thinking about the incarcerated. Our favorite quote by Jasmine is “Disruptive peacemaking is intentionally working toward systems that provide equality and equity for all.” We know that you  will be inspired and informed listening to this episode.Book recommendations:  Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Rethinking Incarceration by Dominique DuBois Gilliard

Disruptive Pedagogy: Good teachers are competent but great teachers are disruptive

Disruptive Peacemakers is a podcast that features interviews with interesting people who are committed to anti-racism, racial justice and racial reconciliation. Our guests will be a mix of people who have in-depth knowledge and experience working in this area and everyday people who are at various stages on the journey toward authentic peacemaking and reconciliation. The conversations will center around how to disrupt and shatter racist strongholds in the Christian Church through the biblical discipline of peacemaking. We’ve embraced the definition of peacemaking from the Book of Common Prayer, A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals which states “Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice.”