Mary E. Hess

Mary Hess is Professor of Educational Leadership at Luther Seminary, where she has taught since 2000. She has a BA from Yale, an MTS from Harvard and a PHD from Boston College. Her most recent books include Teaching Reflectively in Theological Contexts: Promises and Contradictions, and Engaging Technology in Theological Education. She is a frequent contributor to the journal Religious Education. She is a past president of the Religious Education Association/Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education, and a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the Association of Practical Theology, and the American Academy of Religion. She consults widely with US theological school faculties on topics of distributed learning and pedagogy, and has worked with both the Wabash Center and the Lexington Seminar. She has written the blog Tensegrities since early 2003, and curates Storyingfaith.org.