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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Mar 183 min read
Grief: the Sad Frontier
Anger unresolved is grief, I’ve been taught. Rage is unresolved collective anger. The greatest challenge before us today (speaking as...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 18, 20232 min read
Conscious Feminine in (Un)Conscious Hostility
I often name what I do as conscious feminine leadership in ecclesial settings (un)consciously hostile to the feminine. I’m even learning...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 12, 20232 min read
Silence, Speaking, and WWIII
This post arises from an email I received from a health/fitness/yoga/mindfulness site, offering a sentence that stopped me in my tracks:...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 10, 20232 min read
What IS it with Golda?
I have a new fangirl crush filling most every free moment these days: Golda Meir. I rarely read the genre of biography, yet I canNOT put...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 30, 20232 min read
Making it to Miami
Brian and I have made it!! We leave shortly on this beautiful Monday morning for our 5-day cruise to the Bahamas and Cozumel, returning...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 10, 20232 min read
The Twinge...
I feel a twinge now when I consider working with, alongside, my friend who also happens to be the academic dean of my seminary. I know to...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 8, 20232 min read
What if Protecting is the Problem?
Friday, I awoke at 5:10 a.m. to enjoy my coffee, head into CrossFit. I saw I had 10 texts that all arrived after falling asleep around...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 1, 20232 min read
MamaV, Bayo, and Prayer -- GRATITUDE
Bayo Akomolafe introduced his first “conversation partner” for this week’s online offering as MamaV. I had the “huge Zoom online...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 7, 20232 min read
Honoring What is Hardest to Hear
Brian said something last night that has caught my heart’s attention this morning. A colleague-friend wondered aloud with him whether “my...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Aug 22, 20232 min read
Hand-in-Glove...
With a bit more intellectual curiosity now... Last night’s events showed me something I’d not seen or felt so clearly before: White...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Aug 22, 20232 min read
Gift of Tears...
Midway through the “global awakening” fellow’s speaking last night, a gift of tears was visited upon me, though I did not experience it...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Aug 6, 20232 min read
Prayer Really IS the Answer to Everything...
...though not remotely as I was taught, and only because there is no defining or confining it. I’m beginning to think human life–at least...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Aug 5, 20232 min read
Competition, Community, Commodification, Oh My...
“Whether we know it or not, like it or not, honor it or not, we are embedded in community.” This opening line of a Parker Palmer essay...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Aug 1, 20232 min read
If You Hate the Patriarchy...
What if in the divine order of things the Gospel of John was willfully changed by earliest scriptural scribes so to be included in the...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 24, 20232 min read
Core-Sample for Today
I have spent the morning immersed in a newly-succinct question for myself: how does one learn to bear wisdom long demonized by tradition?...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 18, 20232 min read
Mammification...
A couple weeks ago, I finally saw my friend Quanita’s comments on one of my posts in which I had wrestled with honoring my own...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 10, 20232 min read
I Don't Believe in Preaching Anymore...
I say this from time to time, particularly with religious-leadership folks, mostly rabbis, clergy. A friend-colleague who teaches...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 4, 20232 min read
Soaring & Broken on the Fourth
Today was a Fourth of July unlike any other I can recall. My heart is full… ...and I am heart-broken. Wistfully peaceable. The first...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 30, 20232 min read
Community Table -- Part Deux*
Sometimes life offers a microcosm that reminds you, even teaches you, about an ongoing macrocosm, whether you are there by choice or...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 27, 20232 min read
A Flightpath Lament
These words are offered up as a flightpath lament, in hopes of releasing the deadening combination of generosity, impotence, and...
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