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Essays on Personal Faith

Essays on Personal Faith

Reflections on believing — my own journey, and the questions it left me with. The personal-faith companion to the public-policy treatises at hess.institute. Each is written to be read, and heard in my own voice.

The Codeist Reflections

These essays are mine — written, revised, signed, and read aloud in my own voice. I publish them one at a time, as each one is finished. Nothing appears on this page until it carries my signature and stands as my settled word.

More are in progress. They are coming slowly and on purpose: each begins as a single topic I decide is worth the reflection, and none of them is published until the story in it is actually mine to tell.

01
The Candle I Was Forbidden to Light
My earliest memory of wonder, and why the forbidden flame still burns.
Published
Signed · read aloud by the author
02
Born Into a Story: Faith as Inheritance
Receiving a tradition before I was old enough to choose it.
Published
Signed · read aloud by the author
03
The First Honest Question
The single question, asked in good faith, that changed everything.
Published
Signed · read aloud by the author

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