JAMES LEONARD PARK
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(1) James Park, existential philosopher
(2) Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
(3) e-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU
(4) home page: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/
(5) Spiritual Path: Humanist—Existential Spirituality.

    My specific areas of interest are illustrated
by the seven major divisions of my website:
1. Love, 2. Sexology, 3. Existentialism, 4. Unitarian Universalism,
5. Existential Spirituality, 6. Medical Ethics, & 7. Death.

     I am volunteering to be part of the professional staff of FUUCI.
I have a Master of Divinity degree from
Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
(This was from my days as a Christian, which are now long past,
but I can still discuss all the Christian themes.)
I have 15 years experience in campus ministry.
For 7 years in the late 1980s and early 1990s I was a paid staff member
of the Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Campus Ministries.
During other years I was a volunteer staff members
and a member of the Board of Directors of MUUCM.
Currently I am the editor and webmaster for Heart, Mind, & Spirit
—an electronic magazine for UUs on Campus:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/HMS.html

     My primary contribution to the First Unitarian Universalist Church of the Internet
will be intellectual and spiritual content.
I have now published more than 130 cyber-sermons on my website:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/CY-LIST.html
I have been an occasional guest speaker at the 12 UU congregations
in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, & their suburbs.

     I have already spent a few hours as a Cyber-Sermon Surfer,
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-CySS.html
covering several states in the heartland and all of Canada.
(This was in 2003, so it needs to be done again
because several congregations might have created
websites with sermons since then.)
It has been quite interesting to communicate with the ministers
who are putting their sermons on the Internet.

     Growing out of the interests expressed above,
I see myself engaging in individual e-mail dialog
with other members of FUUCI.
Such dialog will be more philosophical than psychological.
I am especially interested in spirituality for humanists.
Here is the complete text of my small book called
Spirituality for Humanists:
Six Capacities of Our Human Spirits:
http://umn.edu/home/parkx032/SPH.html

    I define my spiritual path as religious humanist,
which means that I no longer believe in any of the traditional gods.
But I have not given up on spirituality.
Søren Kierkegaard is the father of existential spirituality.
Much more about this movement will be discovered
by reading some of the books on this bibliography:
Books on Existential Spirituality.

     I can also see myself guiding a discussion group by e-mail
on any of the subjects I have addressed in my books and cyber-sermons.

    I am also volunteering to be the first webmaster for FUUCI.

     You will find out much more about me by browsing my website,
which now contains more than 1000 files:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/
Especially of interest might be my longer introduction for UUs:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/JP-UU.html.

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