Dennis Sochor was scheduled to die at Florida State Prison. The state called him condemned. Scripture says otherwise.In these six pieces, author, activist, and death row spiritual advisor Jeff Hood accompanies Dennis through his final days...a man who refused a last meal so he could fast and pray, who renamed the gurney his "journey gurney," who gave away everything he owned while the state prepared to take the only thing left. Kept from the execution chamber by a deadline Dennis n...

The most complete scholarly edition of Jim Jones's recorded sermons ever assembled — 102 sermons across ten volumes, drawn directly from the Q-number archive maintained by the Jonestown Institute.On November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred people died in Jonestown, Guyana, under the command of Jim Jones. What remains of that catastrophe — beyond the grief and the headlines — is a vast archive of recordings: Jones preaching, healing, arguing, commanding, and unraveling acr...

The Jonestown Trilogy gathers three landmark works by Jeff Hood into a single volume — a sustained, unflinching theological descent into one of the darkest events of the twentieth century.On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred people died in the Guyanese jungle under the command of Jim Jones. For most, Jonestown is shorthand for fanaticism, a punchline, a cautionary tale. For Hood, it is something else entirely: a site of profound theological confrontation, a place where ...

In The Monster: Exploratory Essays on the Psychology of Violence, Humanity and the Death Penalty, Jeff Hood dismantles the convenient myth that monsters are born fundamentally different from the rest of us. Through a series of profound and unflinching essays, Hood traces the slow birth of monstrosity within ordinary human conditions...trauma, neglect, humiliation, and social failure...while confronting the psychological and theological architecture that allows society to exile the...

In the searing heart of protest and prayer, fire becomes both destroyer and divine revelation.God in the Flames offers a bold, unflinching exploration of self-immolation as one of the most radical spiritual acts in modern history. From the iconic image of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burning in Saigon in 1963 to the fiery protest of Rev. Charles Moore in Texas and beyond, theologian and activist Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood trace...

THE COLLECTED SERMONS OF JIM JONES, VOLUME VII: THE 1973 SERMONS, PART TWOWhat does it cost to belong? In 1973, Jim Jones was building something — a community held together by vision, fear, racial justice, and the slow erosion of the self. The sermons in this volume show him doing that work in real time.In this seventh volume of The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones, theologian and activist Jeff Hood presents eight sermons from 1973, drawn from the fe...

In "Blackology: The Theological Dexterity of Blackness," authors Yoel Omowale and Jeff Hood deliver a groundbreaking exploration that reimagines theology through the lens of Blackness as the primordial essence of existence and divinity. Drawing on metaphors of jazz improvisation and the nurturing darkness of the womb, this provocative work challenges traditional Western Protestant theology's disembodied abstractions and its prejudices against the Black body. Instead, it posits Blackness no...

Polyamorous Theology: A Dialogical Experiment in Thinking offers a bold, conversational exploration of polyamory through the lens of Christian theology. In this intimate dialogue, cisgender homosexual polyamorous theologian Rev. Dr. Bryan Allen Demeritte and cisgender heterosexual monogamous theologian Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood weave lived relational experience with liberation theology, queer theology, and progressive Christian thought. They reimagine the Trinity, Christ, the Holy Spirit, transce...

The Revised Gospels of Jesus Christ by Jeff Hood is a bold, prophetic reimagining of the four Gospels set in the streets, prisons, and margins of contemporary America. Written in a single inspired night, these revisionary narratives transpose the life of Jesus into the world of death row inmates, undocumented immigrants, the unhoused, and the systemically oppressed — asking readers to encounter the radical Christ not in ancient Judea, but in modern spaces and places.

The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones, Volume X: The 1975–1977 Sermons — The Long Walk to the End presents eleven full sermon transcripts from the federally catalogued Q-number archive — Q1018, Q1028a-3, Q1056-4, Q162, Q454, Q162 (Philadelphia 1976), Q965, Q969, Q945, Q987, and Q1028a-2 — covering the final three years before the catastrophe of November 18, 1978. This is the last volume in the series, and it reads like one.By 1975, the Peoples Temple was under serious externa...

Governors Among the Racists is a 50th anniversary retrospective on the 1970 Alabama Democratic gubernatorial primary, one of the most savage political contests in American history. At its center are two men who were once allies: George Wallace, the architect of modern racial demagoguery, and Albert Brewer, the accidental governor who dared to imagine an Alabama that could move forward. What began as a gentleman's agreement between political partners collapsed into a blood match th...

In 1844 a Boston minister sat down to end the death penalty by argument alone.Charles Spear gave sixteen essays to the task. He went at the gallows from every side. He counted the jurors who would not convict because conviction meant a hanging. He counted the men who watched an execution in the morning and killed someone by nightfall. He counted the innocent...the farmer hanged for murdering a niece who came home two years later, the immigrant hanged on the word of the woman who ha...