(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 the 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
Growing out of the
interests expressed above,
I see myself engaging in individual e-mail
dialog
with other members of the 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 the FUUCI.
You will find out
much more about me by browsing my website,
which now contains more than 800 files:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/
Charter Member, since November 1998.
Revised November 2000, December 2007