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2025-10-29T11:08:18-06:00

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Immediate Eschatology: Universal Salvation Eternally Within

Last updated on: October 29, 2025 at 11:08 am By Jeff Hood

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Everyone is Already Saved: The Immediate Eschatology of the Atonement Everyone is Already Saved: The Cross as the Axis of Creation He hung there…bloodied, broken, and nailed between heaven and earth…and the universe itself trembled. The wind whispered through galaxies, the stars pulsed in awe and the planets turned in sorrowful rhythm. The Cross was not mere wood…it was the axis of creation, the hinge of eternity, the point at which time itself bowed. Every heartbeat, every quark, every atom,... Read more

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2025-10-28T12:54:19-06:00

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Eyewitness to Horror : On The Execution of Anthony Boyd

Last updated on: October 28, 2025 at 12:54 pm By Jeff Hood

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36 Minutes of Horror : The Execution of Anthony Boyd : An Eyewitness Account The Execution of Anthony Boyd. Details matter. The 19 minutes. The 36 minutes total. The over 230 gasps. The way his body responded. These aren’t gratuitous documentations. They are reality. The State of Alabama has built a narrative around nitrogen execution…claims of painlessness, of humanity, of a peaceful death. None of that is based on witnessing. It’s based on theory, assumption and the need to believe... Read more

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2025-10-28T08:24:51-06:00

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Norman Grim : What Would God Say?

Last updated on: October 28, 2025 at 8:24 am By Jeff Hood

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What Would God Say to Norman Grim? The Final Hour It’s almost time. The lights inside the prison burn bright against the dark October sky. Somewhere in the back, Norman Grim is waiting. In a few minutes, they’ll walk him down that short hall to the room where the state will help him die. The official word is execution. The truer word is killing. He says he’s ready. He’s given up his appeals, told his lawyers to stop fighting for... Read more

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2025-10-27T11:12:37-06:00

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Stand Up to Power! : The Courage of Jerzy Popieluszko

Last updated on: October 27, 2025 at 11:12 am By Jeff Hood

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The Courage There are people who don’t just live the Gospel…they bleed it. Jerzy Popieluszko was one of those. He didn’t talk about courage…he inhabited it, quietly and stubbornly, in the face of a machine that wanted to grind down the human soul until it no longer remembered God. He wasn’t a revolutionary in the way governments understand revolutions. He was a priest…small, tired, soft-spoken…who somehow became a mirror for everything his country had forgotten…dignity, truth, compassion and the... Read more

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2025-10-23T06:26:53-06:00

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Horror: Thoughts on Another Nitrogen Execution

Last updated on: October 23, 2025 at 6:26 am By Jeff Hood

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After witnessing the horror of the first nitrogen execution, I’m terrified to witness another. But it’s looking increasingly likely that I will. It was horror. Pure, unrelenting horror. I can still hear Kenny Smith’s choking in my dreams. The sound burrows into my skull and won’t let go. Serving as Smith’s spiritual advisor during the first nitrogen execution, I stood just feet away. They said the new method would be “humane,” that it would be quick, that it would be clean.... Read more

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2025-10-22T20:44:24-06:00

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Prayer for Anthony Boyd in the Shadow of the Killing Machine

Last updated on: October 22, 2025 at 8:44 pm By Jeff Hood

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Prayer for Anthony Boyd in the Shadow of the Killing Machine Gracious and Merciful God, Tonight, we come before You trembling but unbroken. The air is heavy, the hours are few and the machinery of death hums in the distance. Yet even now, in this midnight of human cruelty, we know that You are not absent. You have not turned Your face away. You are here…closer than breath, nearer than fear, burning like fire in the darkness. You are... Read more

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2025-10-21T22:01:02-06:00

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A Prayer for Anthony Boyd

Last updated on: October 21, 2025 at 10:01 pm By Jeff Hood

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A Prayer for Anthony Boyd Gracious and Eternal God, We come before You today, hearts open and minds attentive, to lift up Anthony Boyd into Your care. You know the truth of his life, every joy and sorrow, every hope and fear…you see what is hidden from our eyes…and you know the innocence that dwells within him. Surround him with Your mercy, Your love and Your peace. Let him feel Your presence now, steady and unwavering, a light that cannot... Read more

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2025-10-21T07:50:49-06:00

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If You Condemn Him…You Should Kill Him: On Anthony Boyd

Last updated on: October 21, 2025 at 7:50 am By Jeff Hood

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Every execution begins long before the gas flows. It begins the moment someone decides they will not have to see it. If You Condemn Him…You Should Kill Him The only reason the death penalty survives is because the people who impose it never have to carry it out. The system depends on distance. The violence of killing is separated from the moral weight of deciding who dies. In a courtroom death is abstract. The words are careful. The gavel falls.... Read more

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2025-10-19T21:53:03-06:00

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The Collective Evil of the State and Anthony Boyd

Last updated on: October 19, 2025 at 9:53 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Collective Evil of the State and Alabama’s Execution System Alabama’s adoption of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution marks a disturbing evolution in the machinery of state killing. First used in January 2024, this method has been presented as “efficient” and “humane,” yet beneath the technical veneer lies a profoundly intimate cruelty. The execution chamber is not a neutral space. It is a crucible of violence where life is extinguished through deliberate human intervention, and moral responsibility is... Read more

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2025-10-18T12:37:55-06:00

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Gov. Ivey, Meet with Anthony Boyd.

Last updated on: October 18, 2025 at 12:37 pm By Jeff Hood

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October 18, 2025 Dear Governor Ivey. You have a big decision coming up. Life or death. I have a simple request…come sit for a second with Anthony Boyd before you allow his execution to proceed. Meet with Anthony Boyd. Look into his eyes. Hear his breath. Feel the weight of a life poised on the edge of execution. Just take a second to see his humanity. No paperwork, no press releases, no legal arguments can convey the human reality... Read more

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