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 has continued his campus ministry work
by way of the
Internet.
He is the editor
and webmaster for Heart,
Mind, & Spirit
—an
electronic magazine for UUs on campus.
Here is the home
page of Heart, Mind, & Spirit:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/HMS.htm
Begun in 1999, Heart, Mind,
& Spirit moved to Facebook in 2009.
James Park was also the volunteer editor of the
Online Handbook
for UU Campus Ministry,
which is a
collection
of the best contributions to
the e-mailing list for leaders in UU young adult and campus ministry:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/CM-BK-DX.html
Other Internet projects include
the Cyber-Sermon
Registry,
which now has links
to
more than 10,000 UU sermons
on the Internet
from all over North America.
No ideological test
has been applied to these links.
Any UU congregation
with sermons on its website
is encouraged to
list itself on the Cyber-Sermon Registry:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-SERNET.html
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:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/SPP.html
Besides being a member (since 1980) of
the First Unitarian
Society of Minneapolis,
a large urban
congregation
committed to humanism.
James Park is also
a member of
the Church of the
Larger Fellowship,
http://www.uua.org/clf
and a list member
of its main e-mailing list: CLF-L.
He is the author of about 15 books,
several of which deal with existential spirituality:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/JP-CW.html.
More than 130 cyber-sermons are published on
the Internet:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/CY-LIST.html
He provides a weekly cyber-sermon to an
on-line group called
UU-COMMUNITY:
http://lists.uua.org/mailman/listinfo/uu-community
In 2009 he moved the
First Unitarian Universalist Church of the Internet
(FUUCI) to Facebook.
He serves as webmaster for this electronic congregation:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-INDEX.html
Even more information about James Park
is available on
his home page:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/
You might be
interested in the UU section,
which comprises about half of the 1,000 'rooms':
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/UUindex.html
James Park's e-mail address: parkx032@umn.edu