100+ CYBER-SERMONS BY JAMES PARK


ORGANIZED INTO 10 SUBJECT AREAS

If this were the contents of a magazine, which article would you read first?

1. LOVE

Romantic Love is a Hoax!
Emotional Programming to 'Fall in Love'
D

Loving in Freedom .

Romantic Jealousy:
Cause & Prevention
D

Separating Lust and Love .

The Future of Love and Marriage
D

Four Ways to Achieve Same-Sex Marriage
D N




2. SEXOLOGY

Sources of Sexual Fantasies .




3. EXISTENTIALISM

Becoming More Authentic:
The Positive Side of Existentialism
.

Your Unique Contribution to the World
D

Becoming More Free
D

Pursuing Intrinsic Values:
Am I Spending this Hour Well?
   D





4. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM


WHICH GODS DO NOT EXIST?

        No Gods Created the Universe
C

        No Gods Wrote Holy Books
C

        No Gods are All-Powerful
C

        No Gods Are Watching Our Behavior
C

        No Gods Can Save Us from Death
C

WHICH GODS MIGHT EXIST?

      
God-Talk Might Be a Way of Expressing Our Spiritual Dynamics .

The Religious Impulse
.   D

The Next 1,000 Years of Spiritual Progress:
The Future of Unitarian Universalism
.

Why I Am a Unitarian UniversalistD O

Sex-and-Gender Minorities, Sexology,
& the Unitarian Universalist Movement
.

A New Name for Unitarian Universalism?    D

Does God Keep Up with Modern Science?    D

Creating New Commandments    D




5. EXISTENTIAL SPIRITUALITY

Introducing Existential Spirituality .

Spirituality for Humanists:
Six Capacities of our Human Spirits
.


WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?

        1. Beyond the Life of the Body, the Heart, & the Mind .

        2. Ways to Expand Our Spirits .

        3. Self-Transcendence, Self-Criticism, & Altruism .

        4. Freedom:Transcending Enculturation and Choosing for Ourselves .

        5. Creativity: Making Something Genuinely New .

        6. Love: The I-Thou Encounter, Discovering Other Persons of Spirit .

        7. The Disclosure of Existential Anxiety
            and other Manifestations of Our Existential Predicament .

        8. Glimpses of Joy and Fulfillment .

OUR EXISTENTIAL PREDICAMENT

        Loneliness of Spirit:
        Deeper than the Reach of Love .

        Being Depressed in Spirit:
        Deeper than Psychological Depression
D

        Existential Anxiety:
        Angst .

        The Existential Void .

        Sinking into the River of Existential Despair .

        Existential Insecurity .

        Existential Guilt:
        Deeper than the Pangs of Conscience
C

        Looking for the Meaning of LifeD O

Depressed?
Don't Kill Yourself!
D

Asking the Ultimate QuestionsD

Passionate Inwardness:
Surrendering Self



6. MEDICAL ETHICS

Losing the Marks of Personhood:
Discussing Degrees of Mental Decline
. D

Advance Directives for Medical Care:
24 Important Questions to Answer
D

Fifteen Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions .

There is No Free Health Care:
Tax-Supported Medical Care
  .  
D

Nine Ways to Reduce Health-Care CostsD N

Voluntary Rationing of Health-CareD N

Consumer Control of Health-Care Costs:
Eliminating Unnecessary Medical Procedures
  .  
D N

No More Million Dollar Babies .   D

Medical Futility Monitor:
Avoiding the Million-Dollar Death
D N

The Living Cadaver:
Medical Uses of Brain-Dead Bodies
D N

The Dead-Donor Rule:
How Dead Do You Have to Be?
  
D N

Do Organ Carry Personal Character?    D

Voluntary Execution Followed by Organ Donation .  D N

Depressed?
Don't Kill Yourself!
.



7. DEATH AND THE RIGHT-TO-DIE

The One-Month-Less Club:
Live Well Now, Omit the Last Month
D N

Choosing Your Date of Death:
How to Achieve a Timely Death
Not too Soon, Not too Late .    D

Choosing Your Own Pathway towards Death  .    D

Completed Life or Premature Death?      D

One Million Chosen Deaths per Year?  D N

Taking Death in Stride: Practical Planning .  D

Will this Death be an "Irrational Suicide" or and "Voluntary Death"?D N

Will this Death be a "Mercy-Killing" or a "Merciful Death"?D N

Four Legal Methods of Choosing DeathD N

The Number of People Reviewing a Life-Ending Decisions
Using the 26 Recommended Safeguards
D

Pulling the Plug:
A Paradigm for Life-Ending Decisions
.

Life-Ending Decisions for Alzheimer's Patients  .  D N

Do I Lose the Right-to-Die When I Lose Consciousness?

A New Way to Secure the Right-to-Die:
Laws Against Causing Premature Death
.

Two Approaches to Right-to-Die Laws:
Granting Permission and Banning Harms
.

Interpreting Laws Against 'Assisting Suicide' .   D N

Voluntary Death by Dehydration:
Why Giving Up Water is Better than other Means of Voluntary Death
D N

Voluntary Death by Dehydration:
Safeguards to Make Sure it is a Wise Choice
  . 
D N

Voluntary Execution:
Better than Capital Punishment?
   D N

The Brain-Death Protocol for Voluntary Execution followed by Organ Donation .    D N

God Will Decide When Life Will End:
We Should Not 'Play God'
    C D



8. TERRORISM, WAR, & PEACE 

Holy War Against TerrorismD

Peaceful Muslims & Violent MuslimsD N

Deprogramming Former Members of Al-QaedaD

Religious Prisons to Rehabilitate Islamic Terrorists . D N

Exit Strategy for Iraq:
Arabic-Speaking Peace-Keepers
D N

Policing Mutual Genocide:
Not a War on Terrorism, Not a Civil War
D N

Tribalism in IraqD

Iraq after Occupation .  D

Lessons from Iraq . 
D N

WORLD PEACE FORCE

       World Without WarD

       The Meaning of Complete Disarmament .  D

       Blessed Are the Peacemakers .  D

       World Peace Force100 Years for Transition

       Enlightened Presidents of the United States
       Could Use the U.S. Military Forces
       as an Interim World Peace Force
D N

       Could the World Peace Force Go Bad?  D

      
Structure and Funding of the World Peace Force

       WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?

       Disarm the Planet EarthOne Nation at a TimeD

       Eliminate all Weapons of Mass DeathD N

       End all Military Dictatorships  .   D N

       When National Governments Collapse  .  D

       Separate the Arabs and Jews in Palestine  .  D N

       Separate the Warring Factions in Iraq  .  D

       Disarm All Sides in Afghanistan  . D N

       Disarm All Fighters in Syria  .  D N




9. PUBLIC POLICY 

Six Ways to Diminish Gun Violence .  D N

Universal Gun Registration:
A National Database of all Gun-Owners and their Guns
.   D  N

Using Electric Bills to Make Everyone More Green . D N

Sex-Balanced Senate . D N

Replace the Electoral College
with One Presidential Vote for each Congressional District
  .   D N

The Social Security Tax:
Reforming the Most Unfair Federal Tax
  .    D N

Million Dollar Cap:
No One Should Get More than One Million Dollars Per Year from the U.S. Taxpayers
  .   D N

The Underground Economy:
Bring all Economic Activity into the Open  .   D N

Media Science, Advocacy Science, & Real Science .   D N


How to Tread More Lightly on the Earth



10. IMMIGRATION REFORM

I am an Immigrant
  .   D

IMMIGRATION REFORM:
Selecting New Americans
  .    D

IDEAL IMMIGRANTS:
New Criteria for Selecting New Americans
  .   
D

Expanding the DREAM Act:
New Pathways to Citizenship
  .  
D

Creating New Pathways to American Citizenship  .    D

End Deportation of Persons Likely to Qualify for
a Pathway to Citizenship under Immigration Reform
 
.   D

Registration without Deportation:
Bringing Millions of Foreign Nationals out of the Shadows  .   D N

Register all Foreign Nationals:
Carrots and Sticks
  .   
D


Earning American Citizenship:
Be Above Average
  .   D

IMMIGRATION REFORM:
Problems and Solutions:
Keeping the UU Debate Constructive
  .    D

IMMIGRATION REFORM:
A Range of Options
  .  
D

If They Cannot Work, They Will Not Come:
And Many Will Return to their Homelands
  .   D

Born in the USA:
The Easy Way to Become a U.S. Citizen  .     D

Twelve Million Foreign Nationals in the USA:
How Many Will Stay?
     D

Comprehensive Repatriation of Citizens of other Countries and their Families  .     D

National Identity File:
Our National Facebook .     D N


updated 3-14-2012; 9-8-2012

Code (the green letters after some titles)

    James Park is available to speak on these subjects
in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, their suburbs,
& nearby Minnesota and Wisconsin.

    Even tho there is a complete written text for each cyber-sermon,
when speaking to a group, James Park prefers to speak extemporaneously,
without text or notes.
This also communicates better with a live audience.

    When considering the best cyber-sermon for such a guest appearance,
the following codes might be helpful:

C.  Christian. Sermons for people from Christian backgrounds,
helping them to make the transition from Christian roots to UUism.

D.  Discussion. Subjects appropriate for group discussion, classes, panels, etc.
We all have experiences, thoughts, questions, & stories on these themes.  

N.  Newsworthy. These subjects are so current and perhaps controversial
that the local news media might be invited to cover the event. 

O.  Outreach. Sermons especially appropriate for a Sunday
on which you intend to advertise for visitors from the general public
people who have never before attended a UU service.
These talks presuppose no previous knowledge of UU thinking or traditions.
And they address subjects already alive in the minds
of people on the verge of becoming Unitarian Universalists.

    To arrange a guest talk or panel discussion for your group
on any of these subjects,

send an e-mail message to James Park:
PARKx032@umn.edu.
Indicate your first, second, & third choices from the above list.
Or suggest another subject you would like to have discussed.
All subjects can be adjusted to suit your particular group.


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