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2026-05-30T14:13:45-06:00

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Love So Loved the World: On John 3:16-18

Last updated on: May 30, 2026 at 2:13 pm By Jeff Hood

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Love so loved the world that love gave love’s only love, so that everyone who believes in love might not perish but might have eternal life. For love did not send love’s love into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through love. Whoever believes in love will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe in love has already been condemned, because one has not believed in the only love that matters. –John... Read more

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2026-05-25T00:28:30-06:00

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After We Kill The Monster: An Explanation of Outcome

Last updated on: May 25, 2026 at 12:28 am By Jeff Hood

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The Monster Every execution begins with a story. Someone commits an act so terrible that ordinary language struggles to contain it. The crime becomes synonymous with the person. A human being becomes a symbol. A defendant becomes a murderer. A murderer becomes a monster. The Monster Narrative That Makes Executions Possible The logic that follows seems inevitable. Monsters are dangerous. Monsters cannot be redeemed. Monsters do not belong among us. Therefore, monsters must be destroyed. The death penalty depends upon... Read more

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2026-05-23T22:08:04-06:00

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Pentecost: The Inbreaking the Empire Didn’t Plan For

Last updated on: May 23, 2026 at 10:08 pm By Jeff Hood

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*Readings can also be found here. I. Ezekiel 37:1-14, The Valley of the Discarded The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he led me out in the spirit of the LORD and set me in the center of the plain, which was now filled with bones. He made me walk among the bones in every direction so that I saw how many they were on the surface of the plain. How dry they were! He asked me: Son... Read more

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2026-05-20T22:40:05-06:00

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Nitrogen, Steve Marshall’s Defeat & the Soul of the South

Last updated on: May 20, 2026 at 10:40 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Theology of Nitrogen: What Steve Marshall ’s Defeat Says About Death, Power & the Soul of the South Steve Marshall : A Political Collapse Few Expected There are moments in politics when an election result says more than the candidates themselves ever intended. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s Senate loss feels like one of those moments. On paper, Marshall should have been one of the strongest candidates in the race. He had statewide name recognition, donor infrastructure, institutional backing... Read more

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2026-05-19T22:55:09-06:00

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Tony Carruthers : What the State Calls Sane Enough

Last updated on: May 19, 2026 at 10:55 pm By Jeff Hood

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Tony Carruthers : Sane Enough For months now, my phone has been filling up with messages from a man named Tony Von Carruthers. They arrive through the prison communication system, sometimes more than I can read in a sitting. They say the same things. The same phrases recur. The same fixations. The same accusations against the same enemies, real and imagined. He signs them with hashtags, as though he were posting to a feed on a platform that has... Read more

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2026-05-16T16:51:03-06:00

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God is Not Neutral: Glory in the Wounds of Hope

Last updated on: May 16, 2026 at 4:51 pm By Jeff Hood

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God is Not Neutral On 1 Peter 4:13-16 God is Not Neutral: On the Christianity That Has Never Suffered There is a Christianity that has never suffered a day in its life. You know the kind. Stained glass and padded pews. Parking lots that fill on Sunday and empty by noon. Sermons about prosperity and purpose and the particular ways that God wants you to feel good about yourself. A faith that costs nothing…demands nothing…offends no one. A faith that... Read more

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2026-05-13T00:17:23-06:00

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Texas’s Own Expert Says Edward Busby Can’t Be Executed

Last updated on: May 13, 2026 at 12:17 am By Jeff Hood

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On Edward Busby On Thursday, May 14, the State of Texas plans to strap Edward Lee Busby Jr. to a gurney inside the Huntsville Unit and kill him. There is one fact the state has not yet figured out how to argue around: every qualified expert who has examined Mr. Busby, including the expert the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office hired to evaluate him, concluded that he is intellectually disabled. Under the United States Constitution, that should be the end... Read more

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2026-05-10T22:13:34-06:00

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The Hand That Cannot Be Washed: On the Executioner

Last updated on: May 10, 2026 at 10:13 pm By Jeff Hood

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A Theological Inquiry into the Executioner Every argument about capital punishment asks what should be done to the condemned. The condemned is the figure around whom the moral grammar of the practice is built: his crime, his desert, his soul, his appointed hour. I want to ask a different question, one that the great theological defenders of the sword have always treated as marginal even when they have treated it with care. What must be done to the person who... Read more

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2026-05-09T10:31:47-06:00

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Orphans : The Spirit Will Never Leave Us

Last updated on: May 9, 2026 at 10:31 am By Jeff Hood

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A reflection on John 14:15-21 The Fear of Being Orphaned There is a particular kind of fear that runs through this passage like an underground river and if we listen carefully we can hear it. It is the fear of being abandoned. The fear of being left behind. The fear of being orphaned. Jesus speaks these words to disciples who are about to lose everything. The man they followed into the wilderness, the one they left their nets and their... Read more

2026-05-02T22:34:19-06:00

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The Not Yet Is Coming: The Holy Tension of Is

Last updated on: May 2, 2026 at 10:34 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Holy Tension of Is : On John 14:1-12 The Crack There is a crack in everything. Not the crack of ruin. The crack of light. The crack that the darkness cannot explain and cannot close and has been losing sleep over since the third day of the first week when everything that was supposed to stay dead refused to. The crack is not a flaw in the design. The crack is the design. And if you press your ear... Read more

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