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2014-02-05T23:26:16-06:00

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Remarks to Fort Worth Pastors for Texas Children

Last updated on: February 5, 2014 at 11:26 pm By Jeff Hood

We gather around this table this afternoon because we believe. We believe that children are important. We believe that local schools are important. We believe that local schools are the last entity or institution that exists purely for the common good. We also are gathered because we believe that the local school is under attack from outside forces that seek to privatize it for financial gain. I am not willing to say that the people who seek to accomplish... Read more

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2014-02-05T16:35:39-06:00

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The Case of Suzanne Basso: Would Jesus Execute Her?

Last updated on: February 5, 2014 at 4:35 pm By Jeff Hood

Suzanne Basso. Take a second and repeat that name. Suzanne Basso. Suzanne Basso was sentenced to death for the 1998 slaying of Buddy Musso. The body of Buddy Musso was found in a ditch lacerated, covered in bleach and scrapped with a wire brush. There is also evidence that Suzanne Basso made herself the beneficiary of Buddy Musso’s insurance policies and Social Security benefits. Tonight at 6pm, Suzanne Basso is to be given a lethal dose of chemicals and... Read more

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2014-02-04T23:13:29-06:00

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air: who needs it anyway? / a short tale from the city with the worst air quality in Texas…Denton

Last updated on: February 4, 2014 at 11:13 pm By Jeff Hood

Denton is tied with Houston as having the worst air quality in Texas. Tonight, I sat through a Denton City Council meeting during the course of which I heard citizen after citizen speak about physical ailments caused by poor local air quality. The cause of the pollution is no mystery…there is drilling or fracking all over the city. The top agenda item at the Denton City Council meeting tonight was about a 30-day pause in new drilling. This sounds... Read more

2014-02-03T23:11:47-06:00

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the ice pellets on the head of God: reimagining church

Last updated on: February 3, 2014 at 11:11 pm By Jeff Hood

The weather is difficult this evening. We slipped and slid a bit on our drive down. The wind, rain and ice are brutally cold. This does not seem to be a night where we could experience a good conversation outside much less the divine. However, I think Jesus is found out in the elements on nights like tonight. Imagine Mary and Joseph as street people. Imagine Mary birthing Jesus behind the same dumpster that earlier the family had... Read more

2014-02-03T23:08:53-06:00

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being and healing: responding to the call

Last updated on: February 3, 2014 at 11:08 pm By Jeff Hood

John the Baptist called out from the wilderness to make a way for Jesus. You see it is important as we begin to make our way through the Gospel of Mark that John the Baptist is the fulcrum of the entire story. John the Baptist sets the stage. John the Baptist made the way from the wilderness. John the Baptist called out Jesus’ name. This morning as we begin Black History Month, I am reminded of my upbringing... Read more

2014-02-03T23:02:13-06:00

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somewhere to lay my head: apoem

Last updated on: February 3, 2014 at 11:02 pm By Jeff Hood

jesus had nowhere to lay her head mary had nowhere to lay his head peter had nowhere to lay her head martha had nowhere to lay his head john had nowhere to lay her head elizabeth had nowhere to lay his head you othered me now i too have nowhere to lay my head Read more

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2014-02-02T22:24:35-06:00

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Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Us and the Denial of Death

Last updated on: February 2, 2014 at 10:24 pm By Jeff Hood

Phillip Seymour Hoffman was found dead earlier today with a needle in his arm and emptied bags of heroin littered around him. The temptation will be for all of us to distance ourselves from his death by arguing that we live so much cleaner than he did. If we succumb to such temptation, we will not be alone. It seems that all of us try to turn our heads and immune ourselves from death. The death of Hoffman... Read more

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2014-01-30T12:43:31-06:00

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The Beginning: North Texas Fellowship of Reconciliation

Last updated on: January 30, 2014 at 12:43 pm By Jeff Hood

originally published at North Texas Fellowship of Reconciliation On the 30th of December 2006, I collapsed to the floor of my room in tears. I knew I wasn’t supposed to be crying. I was a few weeks away from beginning my first semester at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. I was supposed to believe that God brings about absolute vengeance and retribution…yet there I was on the ground crying. I had never known Saddam Hussein,... Read more

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2014-01-28T23:06:34-06:00

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The Terminal

Last updated on: January 28, 2014 at 11:06 pm By Jeff Hood

Not all that long ago, I spoke on the phone with a friend of mine back home in Georgia. After a few moments, my friend informed me that her beloved grandmother had terminal cancer. After a few moments of tears and grief, I declared, “Well, I guess the truth of the matter is that we are all terminal.” Life in the physical sense is always terminal. The truth is that we all die. Death is a known... Read more

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2014-01-27T13:10:19-06:00

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The Year of Living Dangerously: …on the Bible

Last updated on: January 27, 2014 at 1:10 pm By Jeff Hood

Since the various early councils to construct a cannon or scripture, the Bible has often been a tool of great evil. This morning, let’s do a quick run through of some evil things that the Bible says. In addition to these initial passages, all of the further passages I read will be from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. On homosexuality: Leviticus 20:33: “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both... Read more

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