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2025-11-07T13:59:08-06:00

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Father Mun Jeong Hyeon: The Gospel in the Midst of Suffering

Last updated on: November 7, 2025 at 1:59 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Gospel Father Mun Jeong Hyeon has lived what many priests only preached…a faith that left the sacristy and entered the streets. “The only ones I give attention to are those who are suffering.” That single sentence defines not just his ministry, but his theology. To attend to suffering was to attend to Christ himself. Mun’s life revealed a conviction that God is not found in cathedrals of marble and incense, but among the wounded of history. His priesthood moved... Read more

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2025-11-05T13:38:57-06:00

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Anthony Boyd Remembered : Immortal Final Breaths

Last updated on: November 5, 2025 at 1:38 pm By Jeff Hood

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Anthony Boyd remembered. Just a few weeks ago, I stood with Boyd in the final hours of his life. As his spiritual advisor, I held space for him in that horrific execution chamber in Alabama. I watched a man who had spent decades seeking redemption and fighting for others meet death with a determined faith. Indeed, he knew his execution was not an ending. In the days ahead Boyd will be memorialized, I wanted to make sure these words were... Read more

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2025-11-04T22:14:22-06:00

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Luigi Mangione Case Demands Justice, Not Execution

Last updated on: November 4, 2025 at 10:14 pm By Jeff Hood

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Two Forms of Violence, One Path to Justice On December 4, 2024, Luigi Mangione allegedly shot Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in Manhattan. Surveillance cameras captured the event and cartridge cases at the scene were inscribed with the words “delay,” “deny” and “depose.” Shortly thereafter, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that federal prosecutors had been directed to seek the death penalty in the case. But here is what the cameras did not show…the decades of deaths that happened quietly... Read more

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2025-11-03T23:42:35-06:00

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A Prayer of Mercy for Tremane Wood

Last updated on: November 3, 2025 at 11:42 pm By Jeff Hood

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A Prayer for Tremane Wood O God of mercyO God who bends close to the suffering and the condemnedwe lift before You this hour Tremane WoodYour child, Your creation, Your beloved.You have known him since before he took his first breath.You have seen his struggles, his mistakes, his growth and his faith.You have been near through years of waitingthrough nights filled with fear and through moments of hope.Now as he stands before a time of great uncertaintywe ask You to... Read more

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2025-11-02T23:16:30-06:00

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Why Abolitionists Must Stand for Everyone on Death Row

Last updated on: November 2, 2025 at 11:16 pm By Jeff Hood

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No Exceptions: Abolitionists Must Stand for Everyone Abolitionists (the abolitionist movement) hemorrhages its power every time it reaches for respectability. We parade the innocent man freed by DNA evidence. We spotlight the battered woman who finally fought back. We tell the redemption stories, the ones with tears and transformation and a narrative arc that makes mercy look like common sense. We’ve become experts at packaging our cause in whatever form makes comfortable people comfortable. This is not abolition. This... Read more

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2025-11-01T22:03:05-06:00

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I Will Lose Nothing: The Eternal Explosion of Restoration

Last updated on: November 1, 2025 at 10:03 pm By Jeff Hood

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“I Will Lose Nothing” “All those the Father gives me will come to me. Anyone who comes to me, I will never reject. I did not come to do my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. And this is the will of the Father who sent me: that I should not lose a single person He has given me, but that I should raise them all to life on the last day. Everyone who sees... Read more

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2025-10-31T21:55:45-06:00

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The Death Penalty at Sea : A Moral Cataclysm

Last updated on: October 31, 2025 at 9:55 pm By Jeff Hood

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Blowing Up Suspected Drug Traffickers: The Death Penalty at Sea In recent weeks our government has been blowing up suspected drug traffickers at sea…and not quietly. They have shared images and videos as if destruction itself were proof of justice. This is not protection or prevention…it is The Death Penalty at Sea. It is state-sanctioned killing without trial…without defense…without remorse. On land, even capital punishment faces courts, appeals and scrutiny. At sea, there is no law…only judgment delivered through fire.... Read more

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2025-10-31T11:36:02-06:00

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The Eucharist Exposes Capital Punishment

Last updated on: October 31, 2025 at 11:36 am By Jeff Hood

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Capital Punishment is Exposed by The Eucharist The Center of Faith The Eucharist is the center of our faith. The words from Matthew 26:26, 28 echo in us. “This is my body…This is my blood.” In this sacrament we do more than remember. We taste the suffering of Christ. We meet him…living, present and sacrificed. We take into our own bodies the literal body and blood of the God who was executed. The Eucharist exposes capital punishment for what it... Read more

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2025-10-31T14:53:49-06:00

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The Case for Clarance Goode: Innocence in Plain Sight

Last updated on: October 31, 2025 at 2:53 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Case for Clarance Goode’s Innocence: A Systemic Failure in Plain Sight A Triple Murder and a Rush to Judgment In August 2005 three people…Mitch Thompson, Tara Burchett-Thompson, and 10-year-old Kayla (Kyla) Burchett…were found shot to death inside a small home in rural Oklahoma. The scene was brutal…the kind that leaves a community grasping for meaning and someone to blame. Within days, investigators zeroed in on Clarance Rozell Goode Jr.…a young man with few resources and a reputation that made... Read more

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2025-10-29T19:01:33-06:00

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You Can’t Follow Jesus and Support the Death Penalty

Last updated on: October 29, 2025 at 7:01 pm By Jeff Hood

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It’s not that complicated…You Can’t Follow Jesus and Support the Death Penalty The question of whether Christians can support the death penalty is not merely political or legal…it is profoundly moral and spiritual. At its heart, it asks what it truly means to follow Jesus. His life and teachings, recorded in the four Gospels, offer a clear and radical vision of justice, mercy and the value of life. When we pay close attention to His words and actions, it becomes... Read more

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