INTRODUCING
JAMES PARK
—FOR
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS
James Park has a Master of Divinity degree
from Union
Theological
Seminary in New York City.
For seven years in the late 1980s and early 1990s,
he was a paid staff
member of the
Minnesota Unitarian
Universalist Campus Ministries
—the
UU campus ministry to the University of Minnesota.
In all, he was
involved
with this campus ministry
as a volunteer staff
member, paid staff member,
&
member of the Board
of Directors
for more than a
dozen years.
He continued his campus ministry work
by way of the
Internet.
He was the editor
and webmaster for Heart,
Mind, & Spirit
—an
electronic magazine for UUs on campus.
Here is the home
page of Heart, Mind, & Spirit:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/HMS.html
Begun in 1999, Heart,
Mind,
& Spirit moved to Facebook in 2009.
And in 2020, after 60 issues and almost 20 years,
this campus magazine was put to rest.
Another Internet project was the Cyber-Sermon
Registry,
which had links
to
more than 10,000 UU sermons
on the Internet
from all over North America.
No ideological test was been applied to these links.
Any UU congregation
with sermons on its website
was encouraged to
list itself on the Cyber-Sermon Registry.
The Cyber-Sermon Registry was discontinued
when he moved his website
from the University of Minnesota to Amazon.
Another illustration of James Park's openness
to all form of UU
belief is the Spiritual Paths Project,
which attempts to
gather representatives
of every spiritual
path within Unitarian Universalism:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/SPP.html
He is a member (since 1980) of
the First Unitarian
Society of Minneapolis,
a large urban
congregation
committed to humanism.
For many years (thru 2020)
he was also
a member of
the Church of the
Larger Fellowship (CLF)
http://www.uua.org/clf.
At the 2010 General Assembly (GA)
of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA),
he was an official (voting) delegate of the CLF.
He is the author of about 30 books,
several of which deal with existential spirituality:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/JP-CW.html
More than 130 cyber-sermons are published on
the Internet:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/CY-LIST.html
In 2009 he moved the
First Unitarian Universalist Church of the Internet
(FUUCI) to Facebook.
He serves as webmaster for this electronic congregation: