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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Mar 5, 20233 min read
Still With the Staying...
Several weeks ago, a spiritual director friend asked me, “So what is with the staying?” I have appreciated the question, in multiple...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Feb 28, 20232 min read
Ahimsa is So Hard...
I first learned this term, short-hand, as do no harm. Further curiosity, exploration, gives a bit more contour for us here: respect for...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Feb 21, 20232 min read
Partway Through Portland...
Cross-country family is complicated...and precious. I’m over a day into a too-short visit with my folks. Dad’s shoulder surgery,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Feb 12, 20232 min read
Can I Soften My Heart? Should I...?
How might our world soften if we could practice taking one another's heartfelt words at face value? ...at least until there is a...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Feb 10, 20232 min read
Always Relearning How to Play
What is play for me today, if defined as fun, spontaneous activity without any outcome or goal? I’ve long been on a crusade against what...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Feb 3, 20232 min read
Reconsidering Forgiveness...
Welcome into a deepening journey into forgiveness, freedom, and wonder! Matthew Ichihashi Potts is our next guide, with his Forgiveness:...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Feb 2, 20232 min read
How Do I Feel about this Resurrection?
Restorative Wisdom, LLC is being (re)born today. Brian and I visited our tax accountant-guru yesterday…an unusual thing as I always aim...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jan 26, 20232 min read
Divergences, yet Belonging
What’s a woman to do when her inner wisdom begins to differentiate from a significant influence and teacher whom she loves dearly? Trust...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jan 25, 20232 min read
Cookin' on the Stove I Know...
harm is never in isolation. violence is never private. pain is never meant to be experienced alone. therefore, repair and response is...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jan 21, 20233 min read
When Tangles Touch Enough to Care
I am living in a tangle of stories. We always do, of course, it’s just that sometimes we’re more aware of it than other times. I’m...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jan 19, 20232 min read
Ripples Upon Ripples
Belonging to one another seeds an uncontrollable joy… ...which of course means an intimacy that sears as well as heals, grief abounding...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jan 16, 20232 min read
Monotheism's Shadow...
Last night, Brian and I found ourselves musing on an old trope (by now) in our marriage: differentiation that deepens intimacy. We landed...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jan 13, 20232 min read
The Strengths of Staying...the new Story?
For the last ten years or so, I have understood myself as a woman betrayed. Most intimately, a woman unknowingly complicit in her own...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jan 11, 20232 min read
Delight. Resonance. Story. Rage.
And just like that…I seem to be able to focus for sustained periods of time, finishing several books when I thought I could not focus...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jan 8, 20232 min read
Going Back to Basics...
What might it mean for a seminary professor to learn about faith, again and again? Seminaries/divinity schools are invested in the...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jan 4, 20232 min read
Beginning...Finally Begun
After the fits and starts of extended graces—granting students incompletes—and pilgrimage preparations—both as professor-administrator...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Dec 31, 20222 min read
Sacred Masculine - Interlude
Interlude: “Why Iron John Is No Gift to Women” by Jill Johnston. (image: By The New York Time's obituary for Johnston, Fair use,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Dec 30, 20223 min read
Princeton Gratitudes -- David Weadon, of blessed memory
This piece began as a commemorative one, since 27 years ago today is the day David Weadon died. He was a beloved mentor, an inexplicable...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Dec 29, 20224 min read
Healthy Sacred Masculine? A Bind...
I find myself in a bind today. I’m curious about the healthy sacred masculine because of a powerful classroom event in October. I...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Dec 25, 20222 min read
It Really Mattered After All--Christmas Music Part Deux
Blessed Christmastide to all who celebrate! Or… May your Chinese food be tasty! May the anticipation of the holiday(s) you honor...
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