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
Sinking into the
River of Existential Despair
.
Existential
Guilt:
Deeper than the
Pangs of Conscience
. C
Looking for the Meaning of Life . D O
Depressed?
Don't Kill
Yourself!
. D
Asking the
Ultimate Questions . D
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 Costs . D N
Voluntary
Rationing of Health-Care . D
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?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 Death . D 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
Peaceful Muslims & Violent Muslims . D N
Deprogramming
Former Members of Al-Qaeda
. D
Religious
Prisons to Rehabilitate Islamic Terrorists . D N
Exit
Strategy
for Iraq:
Arabic-Speaking Peace-Keepers . D
N
The Meaning of
Complete Disarmament .
D
Blessed Are the
Peacemakers . D
World Peace Force—100
Years for Transition
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
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.
Go to the opening page
for this website:
An Existential
Philosopher's Museum
.