Disruptive Peacemakers

By John Williams & Erin Takeuchi

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 ... more

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The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.

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May 26, 2021 Disruptive Parent: Peacemaking While Parenting
This week’s podcast is entitled "Disruptive Parent: Peacemaking While Parenting" we interviewed Pastor Angela Lee. Angela is a friend and co-laborer with us in our racial reconciliation workshops. She is passionate about preaching and peacemaking. Angela talks with us about the challenges of pastoring while raising two beautiful girls under 3 and a bonus daughter. Angela is amazing and you will really enjoy this episode!
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54min
April 20, 2021 Disruptive Pedagogy: Good teachers are competent but great teachers are disruptive
Episode 11: Disruptive Pedagogy: Good teachers are competent but great teachers are disruptive.“No matter what a child comes with you need to be in that place to help them learn.” Karyn Farrar-PerkinsDoes it matter if a child is white or black or yellow or brown? Absolutely! This week Karyn Farrar-Perkins joins us to talk about the importance of resisting ‘colorblind education” and instead empowering children to embrace their identity in order to greatly impact all of our children’s learning....
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1h 7min
April 15, 2021 Disruptive Educator
Episode 10: Disruptive EducatorIn 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 inten...
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48min
April 05, 2021 Disruptive Public Servant
Episode 9: Disruptive Public Servant. We are super excited to share this week's interview with the amazing Eileen Kim, J.D. You will truly enjoy this week’s podcast. Eileen drops so many nuggets. She talks about what it means to be a prison abolitionist, how she found her voice through activism, and how the movie Hotel Rwanda inspired her to to fight injustice. Just listening to the clip will entice you to listen to the entire episode. Here is one of Eileen’s quotes: "Engaging in activism is ...
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1h 7min
March 23, 2021 Disruptive Pastora: Mimicking the disruptive nature of Jesus
“God was always sending a disruptive message to all of our human expectation and always messing with the status quo of the order of things.”Mayra Macedo-NolanThis week’s interview is with Prophetic Pastoral Activist, Mayra Macedo-Nolan. She discusses how her roots and her spiritual formation led her to passionately lead a life in community with all by being a disruptive pastor. Mayra is an amazing example of the importance of doing the peacemaking work both internally and externally. Our favo...
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55min
March 16, 2021 Disruptive Assimilation: Breaking from the high cost of assimilation
“The reason why I had been able to be so successful in white culture is because I had assimilated so much and that was tremendously costly to me. People always talk about the cost of not assimilating but they never discuss the cost of assimilating.”This week on Disruptive Peacemakers we talk with Karen González, a speaker, writer, and immigrant advocate who works as Director of Human Resources for World Relief. An immigrant from Guatemala, González studied at Fuller Theological Seminary. Duri...
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1h 19min
March 09, 2021 Disruptive
“We often build our politics around fear… a fear of vanishing or a fear of bad things happening… but what would you imagine if you can imagine if it could actually work?”Andrea “Andi” SmithThis week we are so honored and humbled to talk to Andrea “Andi” Smith, one of the co-founders of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and the author of Unreconciled: From Racial Reconciliation to Racial Justice in Christian Evangelism. Her work and activism have centered on genocide and acts of vi...
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1h 4min
March 01, 2021 Disruptive Asian: Shedding the skin of the Model Minority
Episode 5: Disruptive Asian: Shedding the skin of the Model Minority“I can hear my mother’s voice… “백인들을 화나게 만들지 마” "Don’t make the white people mad.” Susie GamezThis week we talked with the amazing Pastor Susie Gamez. Susie covers a lot of topics! She talks about the myth of the perpetual foreigner, the lack of Asian American representation in films, tokenism, and standards of beauty. She also talks about the day she had to choose between her Asian identity and the kids that she grew u...
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56min
February 22, 2021 Disruptive Community: Creating spaces that empower and affirm the dignity of everyone.
Episode 4: Disruptive Community: Creating spaces that empower and affirm the dignity of everyone.
“I can’t separate my womanness from my blackness”
Kafi Carrasco
This week we delve into "disruptive community" with our dear friend Kafi Carrasco. She talks about growing up in a community that empowered and affirmed her dignity and its importance in creating a positive future for the next generations. She also discusses that creating discomfort is very much a part of peacemaking.

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February 15, 2021 Disruptive Potluck: What are you bringing to the table?
Episode 3: Disruptive Potluck: What are you bringing to the table?
“Asians are not the virus and Black people are not the villains. Our issue is not with each other it’s with the system of white supremacy."
Dr. Joyce del Rosario
This week we talk about “disruptive potluck” with our guest Dr. Joyce Del Rosario! As violence against Asian Americans continues to grow into 2021, Dr. Joyce talks about the upsurge in hatred, racism and violence against the Asian American community. She explains how Asian Americans are often used as a wedge in the black white racial binary through the use of the model minority myth and through invisibility. This binary causes people not to see how Asian Americans show up for justice for black folks. Finally, she talks about “potluck theology” and the importance for everyone to show up fully at the “table”.

Book Recommendations:
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong
Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction To The Women Of The Torah And The Throne, by Wilda Gafney

PBS Documentary: Asian Americans - produced by Renee Tajima-Peña https://www.pbs.org/show/asian-americans/

Inheritance Magazine (https://www.inheritancemag.com/)
The Model Minority Myth and the Wedge Between Black and White America [Updated], by Kenji https://www.inheritancemag.com/stories/the-model-minority-myth-and-the-wedge-between-black-and-white-america
Reclaim Magazine by the Asian American Christian Collaborative (https://www.asianamericanchristiancollaborative.com/articles)

Contact info:
Website: https://www.joycedelrosario.com/
Twitter: @prayingpilipino

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52min

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The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.