Rev. Liza Marquez and Rev. Karen Frost moderate a panel of interfaith leaders of different cultural backgrounds discussing spirituality in today’s Civil Rights Revolution. Each discussion will center around the disruption of an old paradigm that has needed fracturing in order to allow for the rising of new and more powerful ideas. Much like the phoenix rising from the ashes, these exchanges are meant to raise consciousness by leaning into those uncomfortable topics, elevating awareness, and speaking about the unspoken.
Panelists include Joselito Laudencia, RScP, Rev. Koho Takata and Rabbi Jacqueline Mates-Muchin.
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/93284317807
Meeting ID: 932 8431 7807
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About the Panelists:
Joselito Laudencia, RScP has a Master of Divinity from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and has helped hundreds of clients and students to find their right work, heal their relationship with money and live a more meaningful, fulfilling and purposeful life. He became a Licensed Spiritual Practitioner with Centers for Spiritual Living in 2007. Laudencia has served as the Founding Executive Director of Californians for Justice and later the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network. He has also served on numerous boards, advisory boards and commissions, including the United States Congressional Black Caucus' National Environmental Policy Commission, the California Association of Human Relations Organizations, and the Pacific School of Religion's Center for Spiritual and Social Transformation.
Rev. Koho Takata was born and raised as the second son of the 19th generations of Jokoji Temple in Toyama, Japan. He graduated from Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan, majoring in Jodo Shinshu (Pure Land Shin Buddhism) in 1993. Rev. Takata received his Tokudo ordination in July 1986 and Kyoshi certification in May 1993. After 16 years service at Honpa Hongwanji Mission of HI, he resigned his ministry from Hawaii Kyodan and transferred his ministry to Buddhist Churches of America, US Mainland in July 2011. His first assignment in US mainland was Arizona Buddhist Temple in Phoenix as a Resident Minister (July 2011 – July 2013). He joined in the Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple as an Resident Minister since August 2013.
Rabbi Jacqueline Mates-Muchin is a San Francisco native, is the first Chinese-American rabbi in the world. Her mother was second-generation Chinese-American and her father was the son of Austrian Jewish immigrants. She was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 2002. After serving as an assistant rabbi in Buffalo, New York, she joined Temple Sinai in Oakland, California in 2005. She was chosen as the first female senior rabbi of Temple Sinai in January 2015.