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2014-04-06T14:47:00-06:00

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The Danger of Calls to The Wilderness: A Lenten Response to Rachel Held Evans and Other Progressive Evangelicals

Last updated on: April 6, 2014 at 2:47 pm By Jeff Hood

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is a chief producer and promulgator of spiritual abuse. The guilt and judgment sucked the oxygen out of my body and soul and literally almost killed me on more than one occasion. I left with a degree and a broken faith in humanity and God. During this emotionally exhaustive period of time, I met a minister who invited me to a place called “the wilderness” for conversation and healing. I felt like I had... Read more

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2014-04-02T23:30:37-06:00

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The Danger of Being Called Pastor / Thoughts the Night Before Death Row

Last updated on: April 2, 2014 at 11:30 pm By Jeff Hood

The sky has been dark all afternoon. Lately, it seems the sky is always dark. The drive down was longer than usual. Tonight, I sit in a hotel room. Tomorrow, I will be on Texas’ Death Row visiting inmate Will Speer. I had a tremendous amount of time to think on the way down. Sometimes such excesses of time are good and sometimes they are not. My mind wondered to my ministry over the last year. I have... Read more

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2014-03-31T15:57:53-06:00

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The End of Gay Marriage

Last updated on: March 31, 2014 at 3:57 pm By Jeff Hood

The end is near. The writing is on the wall. The courts are ruling in favor of marriage equality one after the other all over our county. So what happens when marriage is just marriage? I think there is something to be found both in the struggle and at the end of the road when the rights have been secured and the victory won…a mandate for all of us to champion love. There is an older lady I... Read more

2014-03-31T00:02:04-06:00

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Last updated on: March 31, 2014 at 12:02 am By Jeff Hood

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2014-03-28T19:22:13-06:00

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A Devotional from a Book that has Some Occasional Shit In It

Last updated on: March 28, 2014 at 7:22 pm By Jeff Hood

“But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive. You shall annihilate them—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites-just as the Lord your God has commanded, so that they may not teach you to do all the abhorrent things that they do for their gods, and you thus sin against the Lord your God.” -Deuteronomy 20:16-18 If you love God... Read more

2014-03-27T19:07:52-06:00

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Would We Execute Moses?: The Case of Anthony Doyle

Last updated on: March 27, 2014 at 7:07 pm By Jeff Hood

One day, a man became overcome with evil, grabbed an object and repeatedly struck the body of another until that person was dead. After committing the murder, the man took the body, hid it and fled. This series of events sounds eerily similar to what Texas Death Row Inmate Anthony Doyle was convicted of doing in 2003 to Hyun Cho. However, the initial story is not about Anthony Doyle…it is found in Exodus 2 and describes Moses’ murder... Read more

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2014-03-26T14:49:54-06:00

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Power in the Blood: Oscar Romero, A Failed Atonement Theory and the Inner Seed of Liberty

Last updated on: March 26, 2014 at 2:49 pm By Jeff Hood

Growing up our church was a rather stoic place. On Sundays we sang stoic songs. There were only a few foot-tapping songs in the hymnal and only on rare occasions did we ever get close to any hand clapping. There was however one song that seemed to get the feet tapping, bodies swaying and hands colliding every time…”There is Power in the Blood.” I will never forget the lyrics…”Would you be free from the burden of sin? There’s power in... Read more

2014-03-23T01:24:46-06:00

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Why We Can’t Wait: A Sunday Letter from a Baptist Pastor to my Methodist Colleagues

Last updated on: March 23, 2014 at 1:24 am By Jeff Hood

There in the darkness a courageous Baptist Pastor sat furiously transcribing a letter. The words the Baptist Pastor wrote were a response to a letter from a Methodist Bishop and other clergy asking the minister to be patient in the face of injustice. The words the Baptist Pastor wrote still ring loudly in my ears, “But the judgment of God is on the church as never before. If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church,... Read more

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2014-03-20T21:56:00-06:00

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Jesus Enraged: Overturning Purveyors of Injustice

Last updated on: March 20, 2014 at 9:56 pm By Jeff Hood

For many of us, our lives are filled with the mundane and monotonous. It is as if we live for those moments when we might become something different…when we might become all that we were created to be…when we might have the opportunity to touch greatness or even the very face of God. This evening we are going to talk about one of those moments in the life of Jesus, where Jesus is undeniably God in action. The... Read more

2014-03-19T23:48:42-06:00

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Double Homicide Tonight: Racism Reigns in Texas

Last updated on: March 19, 2014 at 11:48 pm By Jeff Hood

The State of Texas killed Ray Jasper tonight. Before his execution, Jasper wrote a letter describing what it was like to be a black man in the United States. The statistics are startling. Although black people make up 12.6% and white people make up 72.4% of the U.S. population according to the 2010 U.S. Census, black people currently make up 41.71% of the death row population according to the Death Penalty Information... Read more

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