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2026-07-04T22:29:40-06:00

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America250. The Yoke of Christ & True Liberation for All.

Last updated on: July 4, 2026 at 10:29 pm By Jeff Hood

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America250: A reflection on Matthew 11:25-30 At that time Jesus prayed, thanking God for hiding these things from the wise and showing them instead to infants. Everything had been entrusted to him. No one truly knows the Son except God, and no one truly knows God except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Then he turned to the crowd. Come to me, he said, all of you who are weary and weighed down. Take... Read more

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2026-06-27T13:19:43-06:00

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Cold Water: A Sermon on Matthew 10:37-42

Last updated on: June 27, 2026 at 1:19 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Cold Water Passage In Matthew 10:37-42, Jesus tells his apostles that no love can come before love of him. Father and mother cannot come first. Son and daughter cannot come first. Whoever will not take up his cross and follow after him is not worthy of him. Whoever clings to his life will lose it. Whoever loses his life for the sake of Jesus will find it. To welcome an apostle is to welcome Jesus, and to welcome Jesus... Read more

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2026-06-17T23:06:41-06:00

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The Man Who Never Knew Peace: Dusty Spencer’s Last War

Last updated on: June 17, 2026 at 11:06 pm By Jeff Hood

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Dusty Spencer Never Knew Peace On June 25, the state of Florida intends to kill a man who has never known peace. His name is Dusty Spencer. He is seventy-four years old. He has been at war his entire life. Not the way a soldier is…in seasons, with a clean beginning then a clean end. He has been at war the way a man is when the fighting started before he could understand it. The way a man is when... Read more

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2026-06-17T01:18:33-06:00

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Dusty Spencer: The Oldest Man Florida Has Ever Executed

Last updated on: June 17, 2026 at 1:18 am By Jeff Hood

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Slaughter the Old? There is an age at which the world is supposed to soften toward you. The body that once carried you begins to ask to be carried. The hands shake. The hearing goes. The years pile up behind you like a country you can no longer travel back to. We have gentle names for this season. We call it the twilight. We call it the sunset. We call it going home. We do not call it the time... Read more

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2026-06-13T15:05:52-06:00

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The Realm of Heaven Is at Hand | Matthew 9:36–10:8

Last updated on: June 13, 2026 at 3:05 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Realm is at Hand I. Sheep Without a Shepherd When Jesus looked at the crowds he saw a people who had been abandoned. The text says they were like sheep without a shepherd. That image is not sentimental. It is political. A shepherd was supposed to protect the flock. A shepherd was supposed to defend the vulnerable. A shepherd was supposed to stand between danger and those who could not defend themselves. Yet when Jesus looked upon the people... Read more

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2026-06-09T23:38:19-06:00

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Judge Emily C. Marks: Nitrogen Executions = Unconstitutional

Last updated on: June 9, 2026 at 11:38 pm By Jeff Hood

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For years, the state of Alabama told the public that nitrogen executions were peaceful. Official reports described these deaths as quiet. The attorney general sold nitrogen as the future of capital punishment…clean, modern, merciful. Every statement, every press release, every official account served the same purpose: to make the public look away. For a long time, it worked. Two days ago, a federal appeals court shattered that narrative. Yesterday, a federal district judge went further. Judge Emily C. Marks... Read more

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2026-06-08T20:04:54-06:00

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breaking: Nitrogen Executions Unconstitutionally Cruel

Last updated on: June 8, 2026 at 8:04 pm By Jeff Hood

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 8, 2026 [email protected] FEDERAL APPEALS COURT RULES NITROGEN EXECUTIONS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY CRUEL Eleventh Circuit Reverses Lower Court in Jeffrey Lee Case, Cites “Intolerable” Suffering… Execution Intervention Project Calls Decision Landmark Victory for Abolition The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit today reversed a lower court ruling and held that Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia execution protocol presents a substantial risk of severe suffering in violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel punishment. The ruling... Read more

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The Case Against Executing Dusty Ray Spencer

Last updated on: June 7, 2026 at 7:00 pm By Jeff Hood

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THE CASE AGAINST EXECUTING DUSTY RAY SPENCER A Comprehensive Argument for Mercy Execution Scheduled: June 25, 2026 | Florida State Prison, Starke Introduction: Dusty Ray Spencer’s is a Life Worth Reconsidering Dusty Ray Spencer, a 74-year-old military veteran, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on June 25, 2026. He has spent more than three decades on Florida’s death row. The crime he committed was violent and real. Karen Spencer is dead and nothing will change that. This argument does not... Read more

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Dusty Spencer, Our Daily Bread & A Florida Execution

Last updated on: June 9, 2026 at 11:50 pm By Jeff Hood

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Our Daily Bread I don’t agree with Our Daily Bread about everything. Maybe not even most things. There are places theologically where we part ways and I won’t pretend otherwise. I’ve spent years doing work that puts me in tension with institutions…religious and secular alike…that seem more committed to their own comfort than to the people suffering inside them. Our Daily Bread is not exempt from my scrutiny. For those who don’t know it: Our Daily Bread is a small... Read more

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2026-06-06T14:08:17-06:00

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From the Desert: You Were Never Meant to Stay in Egypt

Last updated on: June 6, 2026 at 2:08 pm By Jeff Hood

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From the Desert Moses said to the people: “Remember how for forty years now the LORD, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert, so as to test you by affliction and find out whether or not it was your intention to keep his commandments. He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers, in order to show you that not by bread alone does... Read more

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