J.S. Park

Hello online family 🙌 My book As Long As You Need: Permission to Grieve releases in two weeks. Everyone who preorders until then gets this gift bundle: – first chapter free – digital typew...

https://jsparkblog.com/2024/04/03/preorder-my-book-get-a-gift-bundle/

Remembrance is resurrection. An excerpt of my audiobook for As Long As You Need: Permission to Grieve. On remembering the dead and bringing them back to life.

https://jsparkblog.com/2024/04/03/an-excerpt-of-my-audiobook-for-as-long-as-you-need/

I am very happy to share that my book As Long As You Need received a star review by Publishers Weekly. I’m told this is rare, given to about 5% of tens of thousands of books. I’m really, trul...

https://jsparkblog.com/2024/04/03/publishers-weekly-starred-review-of-my-book-as-long-as-you-need/

Book title and cover reveal: • As Long As You Need: Permission to Grieve • You can now preorder AsLongAsYouNeedBook.com • My book releases on April 16th, 2024. It’s about grief. I talk ab...

https://jsparkblog.com/2024/02/08/preorder-my-new-book-as-long-as-you-need-permission-to-grieve/

Hello online family. I am very happy to share that I was interviewed by CNN journalist Faith M Karimi about my hospital chaplain work. Thank you Faith for interviewing me and our amazing palliati...

https://jsparkblog.com/2023/09/20/featured-on-cnn-this-hospital-chaplain-has-counseled-thousands-of-dying-patients-heres-what-hes-learned/

It matters who tells our stories and how. The violence against marginalized communities is rooted in erasure. Every word spoken is a stitch woven into systems which weaves its way into our DNA. T...

https://jsparkblog.com/2022/02/21/i-dream-in-colors/

CW/TW A year ago I began taking antidepressants. Almost twenty years ago I tried to take my life. I spent three days hospitalized after ingesting half a bottle of pills. Over ten years ago I fell...

https://jsparkblog.com/2021/12/20/im-still-alive/

I have to tell you this story about “Ray,” who thought he didn’t deserve help. I used to work at a nonprofit charity for the homeless and I met Ray when he finally got housing and landed a ...

https://jsparkblog.com/2021/12/19/holding-dignity/

Disclaimer: Angry and disagreeable post to follow. I’m still not over the American church of 2020 withholding comfort for pandemic anxiety, compassionate wisdom for masks and vaccines, and soli...

https://jsparkblog.com/2021/12/19/church-what-are-we-doing/

Too often forgiveness is a burden on the wounded. Instead the imperative of accountability must be on the abuser. When I’m told to forgive, I think about my math tutor when I was barely twelve ...

https://jsparkblog.com/2021/10/23/what-forgiveness-is-and-is-not-seven-rules-of-forgiveness/