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A Voice of the Next Generation: Edward Kim
Edward Sarang Kim was a Summer 2015 ISAAC intern at First AME Church LA. Just recently, I started my semester at Claremont School of...
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Heart2Heart: Becoming a Stranger in the Native Place
Having lived in the US longer than Korea, my visit to Korea this summer presented contextual gaps. For example, shop-keepers noticed my...
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2015 Purpose Prize Fellow Young Lee Hertig
The Purpose Prize was created to demonstrate that older people comprise an undiscovered, and still largely untapped, continent of...
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Heart2Heart: Living in Virtual Reality
Although I am also pulled into its conveniences, I am concerned about the dark side of the digital takeover. The revolutionary launching...
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Heart2Heart: We See What We Believe
Seeing the soaring bloody violence rates this year feels like watching a series of old western cowboy reruns. Heightened by unusually...
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Japanese Fathers by Bill Watanabe
My father was a little man – that is, short in stature; he stood barely over 5 feet tall but he was a strong Issei male figure in our...
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You Don’t Know Jack by Bill Watanabe
A number of years ago, when I was the Executive Director of the Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), we had a Nisei volunteer named Jack....
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Heart2Heart: The Joy of Mentoring
Teaching without having to grade is so much fun. In the last two summers, I have devoted the past two summers to ISAAC’s summer...
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A Voice of the Next Generation: William Ko
Intern Spotlight ISAAC delves deeper than the head knowledge of breaking racial and gender boundaries by sending an Asian-American male...
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Heart2Heart: Knowing Heart, Knowing Whole Being
The Heart2Heart blog is an extension of ISAAC’s ongoing efforts to build spiritual leaders for social impact. CS Song, in his seminal...
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A Voice of the Next Generation: Xeres Villanueva
When I started scheduling a visit to Park Hills Community Church, I did not know what to expect exactly when I thought about setting foot...
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Reflections on the FTE Retreat: Jinnie Choi
Going to the FTE retreat I did not set any expectations for myself or the retreat. I went with an open mind to learn and discern my...
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Reflection on 7th Symposium: Alex Dobbs
The ISAAC Dones and Nones Symposium was fantastic! So many good speakers sharing great wisdom on how to love, welcome, converse with, and...
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Reflection on 7th Symposium: Janelle Paule
As a millennial who has been hurt by the Church, it can be easy to fall into the pattern of thinking that I am the only one in my...
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The 7th Symposium: Christianity Next: “Dones” and “Nones”?
How do we bring millennial young adults back or into churches who have declared they are “done” with organized Christian churches or who...
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ISAAC Executive Director Interviewed on Next Gen Pastors Podcast
Rev. Dr. Young Lee-Hertig is interviewed along with Elder Owens Jr. of the Church of God in Christ on the Next Generation Pastors...
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Sera Chung Joins 7th Symposium Discussion Panel
Sera Chung is an accomplished preacher, speaker, musician and spokesperson for the values of justice and liberation. She currently serves...
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Edwin David Aponte Joins 7th Symposium Discussion Panel
We are thrilled to have Edwin join our discussion panel for ISAAC’s 7th symposium “Christianity Next: Dones and Nones?” scheduled for...
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A Voice of the Next Generation: 7th Symposium
A voice of the next generation says, “I think that the ‘none’s’ category is increasing because the Christian Church holds on to archaic...
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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Richard J. Mouw
Fuller Theological Seminary‘s Dr. Richard J. Mouw is the Keynote Speaker at ISAAC’s 7th Symposium this next month, speaking on questions...
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