Publications/Contact

lmhess@united.edu

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Video: On Distance-learning in Theological Education: 26 minutes of practical theological reflection (so beware!).

http://media.united.edu/uts/misc/interview1695736589.wmv

Books and Essays:

Learning in a Musical Key: Insight for Theology in Performative Mode. Princeton Theological Monograph series (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, forthcoming)

“Toward an Intimacy of Difference: Philosophical and Theological Resources for Human Connection Through Difference” in Alienation and Connection: Suffering in a Global Era. Lisa Withrow, ed. (Lexington Press, forthcoming)

“A Contemplative Empiricism: Methodological Musings for an Artisanal Theology in Religious Leadership Formation,” Journal of Religious Leadership Vol 8 No. 1 Spring 2009.

“Pastoral Implications” Lectionary Homiletics (June/July 2010)

Artisanal Theology: Intentional Formation in Radically Covenantal Companionship (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2009)

“Sacred Encounters,” Seasons of the Spirit curriculum (2009)

“Pastoral Implications” Lectionary Homiletics Vol XIX No. 2 Lent 2008

“Formation in the Worlds of Theological Education,” Teaching Theology and Religion Volume 11 Issue 1 January 2008 (peer-reviewed)

“A New Sacred Grove” Teaching Theology and Religion Vol. 10, Issue 3, July 2007

“Sabbath Observance for Religious Leadership:  It’s Not About Time or Eternity” Sustaining Pastoral Excellence monthly,[http://www.divinity.duke.edu/programs/spe/articles], June 2007

“The Gift of Worship: Living Both Ways” in The Upper Room Worship Book, Accompanist and Worship Leader edition, ed. Elise Eslinger (Nashville:  Upper Room Books, 2007)

“What is the Story?” The Clergy Journal, Mar 2007, Vol. 83, no. 5

“Theological Interdisciplinarity and Religious Leadership” Journal of Religious Leadership Vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 2007

“Being Missional” The Clergy Journal, July/Aug 2006, Vol. 82, no. 8

“Having Meaningful Conversations” Caregiving: a Quarterly Publication of the Association of Brethren Caregivers Vol. 8 Issue 2, 2006

“Stewardship:  Questions of Care and Relationship” The Clergy Journal, Sept 2005, Vol. 81, no. 9

“What is Practical Theology?” Journal of Theology Summer 2005

Introduction, George MacDonald’s Diary of an Old Soul (New York: Barnes&Noble Publishers, 2006)

“The Challenge of Activism” The Clergy Journal, Apr 2006, Vol. 82, no. 6.

“Integrity and Ritual” The Clergy Journal, Nov/Dec 2005, Vol 82, no. 2;

“Leadership and the Church We Are Becoming” The Clergy Journal, May/June 2005, Vol. 81, no. 7;

“Toward a Full-Fledged Action Theory with a Perspective of Musical Transcendence” Verbum et Ecclesia, Volume 26 Issue 2 (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Spring 2005

“Practices of Faith and the Logic of the Spirit” The Clergy Journal, Mar 2005, Vol. 81, no. 5

“Connectedness” The Clergy Journal, Jan 2005, Vol 81, no. 3

“Sabbath Renewal:  Recovering Play in Pastoral Ministry,” The Clergy Journal Oct 2004, Vol 81, no. 1

“Lifelong Learning” Church Executive Magazine (www.churchexecutive.com), March 2002