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2026-05-02T20:51:41-06:00

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The Institute for Death Row Correspondence / Launching May 5

Last updated on: May 2, 2026 at 8:51 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Institute for Death Row Correspondence launches May 5, 2026, at 9 PM Eastern / 8 PM Central / 6 PM Pacific. Join us at bit.ly/DeathRowCorrespondence. ___________ Guest post from Dr. Wendy Ramage, Dean of the Institute for Death Row Correspondence There is a particular kind of loneliness that most people don’t talk about. It belongs to the person who has been faithfully writing someone on death row for years — showing up month after month, carrying another human being’s... Read more

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2026-04-30T13:59:33-06:00

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Federal Judge: Alabama Lied About Nitrogen Execution Data

Last updated on: April 30, 2026 at 1:59 pm By Jeff Hood

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Alabama Lied About the Nitrogen Execution Data They lied. Federal Judge Emily Marks in Alabama has now confirmed it…in writing, with sanctions on the table…about the nitrogen execution data on the new execution method the state has been running since 2024. I was the spiritual advisor for two of the men Alabama killed under the protocol they lied about. I watched both of them suffocate. And I am asking the country to listen now, because what just happened in Judge... Read more

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2026-04-24T10:30:55-06:00

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Known Before You Were Formed: The Gospel Case for Trans Kids

Last updated on: April 24, 2026 at 10:30 am By Jeff Hood

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Trans Kids: Known Before You Were Formed There is a verse in Jeremiah that gets stitched onto throw pillows and painted on nursery walls across America: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.” It is quoted at baby showers. It is invoked at rallies. It is used, constantly, as evidence of God’s intimate and personal investment in every human life from the very beginning. What those same voices rarely reckon with is what that verse demands of... Read more

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2026-04-18T21:14:18-06:00

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The Burning Heart: The Crusher of Injustice

Last updated on: April 18, 2026 at 9:14 pm By Jeff Hood

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Luke 24:13-35. On The Road to Emmaus. The Burning Heart: The Language of the Crushed They were walking away. Not in cowardice but in the particular exhaustion of people who have watched the machine win again. Two disciples on a road, putting miles between themselves and Jerusalem, which is to say between themselves and the site of yet another public execution carried out by an occupying power to remind the occupied what order looks like and who maintains it. They... Read more

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2026-04-17T22:27:38-06:00

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The Monster: The Archetype of Evil and The Death Penalty

Last updated on: April 17, 2026 at 10:27 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Monster We Make: On the Archetype of Evil and the Logic of the Death Penalty There is a sound in the dark. You don’t know what it is. Your body knows before you do…the breath held, the muscles tightening, the sudden acute awareness of your own heartbeat. Your mind catches up a second later and begins its work of explanation, but the explanation comes after the fact. The fear was already there, already complete, already certain that something was... Read more

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2026-04-14T07:15:00-06:00

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The Writings of Jeff Hood : 12-Volume Archive of Resistance

Last updated on: April 14, 2026 at 7:15 am By Jeff Hood

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The Writings of Jeff Hood : A Fifteen-Year Archive of Resistance For approximately the past fifteen years, I have been engaged in a long, ongoing project of collecting, shaping, and publishing my written work. What began as scattered reflections…sermons delivered in churches, blog posts written in moments of urgency, letters exchanged in pastoral care, theological essays, public statements and personal journals…has gradually become something more structured and intentional. That project is now known as The Writings of Jeff Hood. This... Read more

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2026-04-11T12:57:47-06:00

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The Credentials of the Crucified : On John 20:19-31

Last updated on: April 11, 2026 at 12:57 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Credentials of the Crucified: Touch, Trauma and the Wounded God The Gospel of John gives us a scene we have domesticated almost beyond recognition. We have turned it into a story about doubt and belief, about a stubborn disciple who needed proof and a patient Lord who provided it. We have made it pleasant. We have made it about us and our private struggles with certainty. But the text itself resists this softening at every turn. It begins not... Read more

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2026-04-09T17:46:18-06:00

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Slaughterhouses : The Execution Chamber and The Meat Plant

Last updated on: April 9, 2026 at 5:46 pm By Jeff Hood

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Slaughterhouses : Two Rooms On the morning of an execution in America, somewhere in a quiet building, a man is eating his last meal alone. The tray came through a slot. The guard didn’t meet his eyes. In a few hours, he’ll be walked to a room he has never seen but has pictured, in the particular way the condemned picture such things, for years. At that same hour, in another building somewhere else in the country, a line of... Read more

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2026-04-06T23:42:41-06:00

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The Dawn of Complicit Press

Last updated on: April 6, 2026 at 11:42 pm By Jeff Hood

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About Complicit Press Publishing books that expose state violence, demand moral reckoning and amplify silenced voices. There is a particular kind of silence that surrounds executions in America. It is not the silence of ignorance…most people know, in some abstract way, that the death penalty exists, that the state kills people in their name. It is the silence of distance, of carefully maintained comfort, of a system designed to make sure that what happens behind prison walls stays there. Complicit... Read more

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2026-04-04T19:44:00-06:00

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Jesus the Gardener: Mary Was Right the First Time

Last updated on: April 4, 2026 at 7:44 pm By Jeff Hood

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Jesus the Gardener Mary Magadelene is standing outside the empty tomb. She has already looked inside. She has already seen the angels. She has already wept. And now she turns around…there he is, standing in the early morning half-light, and she does not know who he is. She makes the most reasonable assumption she can. This man, in a garden, at dawn…he must work here. He must be the one who tends this place. He must be the gardener. She... Read more

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