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2026-10-10T16:58:09-06:00

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GOD Will Wipe Away the Tears from Every Face

Last updated on: October 10, 2026 at 4:58 pm By Jeff Hood

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“GOD will wipe away the tears from every face.” Isaiah 25:8 GOD will wipe away the tears from every face: The Silence after an Execution I have been thinking about these words since coming home from Huntsville. There is a particular kind of silence that follows an execution. It is not the silence of peace. It is not the silence of something settled. It is the silence of a world that keeps moving while something inside you has stopped. The... Read more

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2026-09-29T12:08:45-06:00

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Why Can’t Anyone Say Evil? On the Execution of Christa Pike

Last updated on: September 29, 2026 at 12:08 pm By Jeff Hood

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Christa Pike and Colleen Slemmer In January of 1995, Colleen Slemmer walked into the woods on the University of Tennessee’s agricultural campus in Knoxville with people she thought were her friends. She was cut with a box cutter. A pentagram was carved into her chest. Her head was broken open with a piece of asphalt. Christa Pike carried a piece of her skull out of the trees and showed it off to a friend. Evil. The word has gone quiet... Read more

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2026-09-26T12:28:27-06:00

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God’s Sheep: The Ones Who Sleep Outside the Gate

Last updated on: September 26, 2026 at 12:28 pm By Jeff Hood

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John 10:27 (NRSV): “My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.” God’s Sheep Who Sleep Outside the Gate I have heard this verse used as a wall. My sheep hear my voice. Fundamentalists lean on the word my. They want you to understand that some sheep belong to Jesus. They want you to understand that others do not. Then they tell you how to be one of the ones who belong. Pray this prayer. Believe this... Read more

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2026-09-19T12:49:15-06:00

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Keeping the Word : Living the Word : Changing the World

Last updated on: September 19, 2026 at 12:49 pm By Jeff Hood

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Keeping the Word Luke 8:15 “Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart and yield a harvest through perseverance.” “Blessed are the people who hear the word of God and live it. They keep living it when it gets hard. They persevere until the world around them begins to change.” Hear it. Live it. Keep living it. Stay until something changes. Living the Word Begins with Hearing It Hearing is easy. You have heard plenty. You... Read more

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2026-09-12T13:20:00-06:00

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The Debts We Refuse to Forgive: On Economic Revolution

Last updated on: September 12, 2026 at 1:20 pm By Jeff Hood

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Debts Peter came to Jesus with a question. “When somebody keeps wronging me, how many times do I have to let it go? Seven?” Jesus said, “Not seven. Seventy times seven. Stop counting.” “Here is what the economic revolution of God looks like. A man who owned everything decided to call in his accounts. The first person brought to him owed a figure that ran into the billions. There was no way to pay it. So the owner ordered the... Read more

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2026-09-04T22:26:01-06:00

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Between: On the Person and Character of God

Last updated on: September 4, 2026 at 10:26 pm By Jeff Hood

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Between I am not above you. I am not inside you. I am in the midst of you. I am Between. Matthew 18:20, paraphrased God Is Between I have been told all my life that God lives…in the sanctuary…in the heart…in that still small voice. I have looked in all those places. I have occasionally found something there. But I have never found God fully anywhere except in the other…in between. This is not a metaphor. God is not solitary.... Read more

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2026-09-04T00:48:29-06:00

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The Crayons We Hold in Common: On Jamaal Howard

Last updated on: September 4, 2026 at 12:48 am By Jeff Hood

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“I carried crayons everywhere.” The Night the Shots Rang Out On July 7, 2016, I stood at the front of a march I’d organized through downtown Dallas, Texas. We had gathered to grieve Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black men who had been killed by police brutality in the span of only a few days. Thousands of people came out that night. I had raised my voice and passionately demanded that they show up in those streets. The night... Read more

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2026-09-01T23:54:10-06:00

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The System That Failed Lindsay Clancy & Killed Her Kids

Last updated on: September 1, 2026 at 11:54 pm By Jeff Hood

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Lindsay Clancy & The Wrong Question As of this evening, twelve jurors in Plymouth, Massachusetts have not reached a verdict on Lindsay Clancy. Maybe they’re concentrating on the wrong question. The question is not only what Lindsay Clancy did. The question is what happened before she did it. Start where the story actually starts. Not when her children were found dead on January 24, 2023. Start in September of 2022…when a labor and delivery nurse in Duxbury began to deteriorate.... Read more

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2026-08-29T20:46:25-06:00

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Get Behind Me, Satan: A Death Row Spiritual Advisor’s Sermon

Last updated on: August 29, 2026 at 8:46 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Passages: Get Behind Me, Satan From that point on, Jesus started making it clear to his disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem. There he would face severe suffering at the hands of the religious leaders: the elders, chief priests, and teachers of the law. He would be killed, and on the third day he would be raised to life. Peter pulled him aside and started scolding him: “Never, Lord! This cannot happen to you!” Jesus turned and... Read more

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2026-08-29T12:18:15-06:00

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Rehumanizing Christa Pike: On the Consequences of Evil

Last updated on: August 29, 2026 at 12:18 pm By Jeff Hood

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I’ve spent my life standing against executions. I’ve known countless people who have been executed. On thirteen different occasions, I’ve held the hands of the condemned as their government executed them. I don’t need anyone to soften a story for me. I don’t think the public does either. Dehumanization is the only logical conclusion that comes from not telling the truth. What Christa Pike Did In January of 1995, in Knoxville, Tennessee, an eighteen-year-old named Christa Pike murdered nineteen-year-old Colleen... Read more

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