Books (108)

2024

1. Witness to Death: The 2023 Writings (The Collected Writings of Jeff Hood #6)
2. Execution Echoes: Reflections on the Seven Last Words of Christ
3. The Parables of Jesus: Commentary from Death Row (w/ Bart Johnson)
4. UNDERREPRESENTED: Michael Smith, Oklahoma & the Death Penalty 
5. The David Hosier Story: Writings from a Campaign

2023

1. THEOSEMANTICS: 1.0 The Courage to Be GOD
   
2. THEOSEMANTICS: 1.1 The Courage to Be TANGIBLE
   
3. THEOSEMANTICS: 1.2. The Courage to Be NOW
4. THEOSEMANTICS: 1.3. The Courage to Be LOVE
5. THEOSEMANTICS: 1.4. The Courage to Be REAL
6. THEOSEMANTICS: 1.5. The Courage to Be ART
7. THEOSEMANTICS: 2.0. The Courage to Be CHRIST
8. THEOSEMANTICS: 2.1 The Courage to Be HUMAN
   
9. THEOSEMANTICS: 2.2. The Courage to Be JUSTICE
10. THEOSEMANTICS: 2.3. The Courage to Be HERE
11. THEOSEMANTICS: 2.4. The Courage to Be DEFIANT
12. THEOSEMANTICS: 2.5. The Courage to Be BEAUTY
13. THEOSEMANTICS: 3.0. The Courage to Be SPIRIT
14. THEOSEMANTICS: 3.1. The Courage to Be MAGIC
15. THEOSEMANTICS: 3.2 The Courage to Be ELECTRIC
    
16. THEOSEMANTICS: 3.3. The Courage to Be FIRE
17. THEOSEMANTICS: 3.4. The Courage to Be UNCANNY
18. THEOSEMANTICS: 3.5. The Courage to Be FREEDOM
19. Polyamorous Theology: A Dialogical Experiment in Thinking (w/ Bryan Demeritte)
20. Orationes Mortuorum (Prayers of the Dead): A Lenten Series, 2023
21. The Fight for Scott Eizember
22. The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky. Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah & Wyoming.
23. INNOCENT.: The Anthony Sanchez Report & Trial Exhibits (w/ David Ballard)
24. The Embodiment of Abolition (w/Alli Sullivan)
25. The Anthony Sanchez Gospel: Innocence, Justice, Hope & Love
26. Free Anthony Sanchez: Writings from a Campaign
27. The Lynching of Arthur Brown:  Thoughts from a Texas Tragedy, 2023
28. The Casey McWhorter Tapes
29. Systematic Theology from Alabama’s Death Row

2022

1. The Self-Immolation of Nhất Chi Mai: Historia Divina
2. The Self-Immolation of George Winne, Jr.: Historia Divina 
3. The Self-Immolation of Roger Allen LaPorte: Historia Divina
4. The Self-Immolation of Norman Morrison: Historia Divina
5. The Self-Immolation of Alice Herz: Historia Divina
6. Final Words: Lent from Mississippi’s Execution Chamber 
7. Dialectic in The Desert: Meditations on the Sages  (w/Simon Richardson)
8. The Self-Immolation of Thích Quảng Đức : Historia Divina 
9. Scribblings from Solitude: Writings from 2021 (The Collected Writings of Jeff Hood Book 7) 
10. BLACKOLOGY: The Theological Dexterity of Blackness (w/ Yoel Omowale)
11. Historia Divina (a new spiritual practice): On Self-Immolation
12. A Concise Theology of Love: Ruminations after an Evening with Ohio Death Row Philosopher, Keith Lamar
13. All Things Beautiful: Short Meditations for Black Days. (w/ Yoel Omowale)
14. Wonderful Words of Life (w/Mark Sandlin)
15. The Fight for Kosoul Chantakoumanne
16. The Penalty is Death: The 2022 Writings (The Collected Writings of Jeff Hood 8)

2021

1. SOUTHERN BAPTIST DISTINCTIVES: REIMAGINING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A BAPTIST IN THE SOUTH AND BEYOND. (w/Ellin Jimmerson)
2. The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones: 8 (editor)
3. THE NATIVITY EXPERIENCE: Seeing as Those Who First Saw (w/Kyle Sigmon)
4. The Gospel of Mary: A Modern Commentary 
5. Science Fiction Theology: Three Stories / Many Salvations 
6. God is Sick.: The 2020 Writings (The Collected Writings of Jeff Hood Book 6) 

2020

1. Drugged.: Interstellar Exploration of the Incarnation 
2. out of my head: *freed thoughts 
3. High Country Theology 
4. Governors Amongst the Racists.: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective of The 1970 Alabama Democratic Primary. 
5. The Gospel of Martin Luther King, Jr., to The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 
6. The Revised Gospels of Jesus Christ 
7. The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones:: 7 (editor)
8. The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones:: 6 (editor)
9. The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones: 5 (editor)
10. The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones:: 4.3 (editor)
11. The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones:: 4.2 (editor)
12. The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones:: 4.1 (editor)
13. The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones:: 3.2 (editor)
14. The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones: 3 .1 (editor)
15. The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones:: 2 (editor)
16. The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones: 1 (editor)
17. Revelations in Isolations. 
18. Responses:: A Sampling 
19. Toxic Masculinity:: Honest Engagement with John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart 
20. Deontological Dangers of the Death Penalty for the Medical Practitioner: A Bioethical Engagement 
21. Five Visions of Jim Jones/Jonestown. 
22. Systematic Theology/Shit.: Revelations from Jonestown. 
23. A Life in Writings: 2017-2019(The Collected Writings of Jeff Hood Book 5)
24. The Murder of Joseph Hutcheson: A Struggle for Justice Mar 3, 2020 
25. A QUEER CHRISTMAS: Denton County, Texas 
26. 6 Days in Guatemala: A Journal of Justice 
27. The Complicated Legacy of Cesar Chavez 
28. The Prosperity Gospel: Theological F*CKERY 
29. Sanctuary Hospice House: The Nature of Deathbed Racism 
30. Tales from the Crypt: Verbatim from Clinical Pastoral Education 
31. The Bonhoeffer Chrism Mass / Christopher D. Rodkey (contributor)

2019 

1. The Passion of Charles Moore 

2017

1. The Cathedral: A Parable 
2. The God of the Future 
3. The Execution of God: Encountering the Death Penalty
4. Rainbow in the Word: LGBTQ Christians’ Biblical Memoirs / Ellin Jimmerson (contributor)
5. The Slaughter of God: Theologies from Jonestown 
6. The Violence of Being: Prophetic Writings, 2016 (The Collected Writings of Jeff Hood Book 4) 
7. Dallas: Mixed Verse from a Shooting 

2016

1. The Psychosis of God: An Exploration of Mental Illness 
2. Love Remains: Prophetic Writings, 2014-2015 (The Collected Writings of Jeff Hood Book 3) 
3. The Basilica of the Swinging Dicks

2015

1. The Courage to Be Queer 
2. The Year of the Queer: Thoughts, Blogs, Letters and Sermons, 2013-2014 (The Collected Writings of Jeff Hood Book 2)
3. The Rearing of an American Evangelical 
4. Frances: An Adaptation of the Gospel of Luke 
5. Last Words from Texas: Meditations from the Execution Chamber

2014

1. The Sociopathic Jesus: A Mistranslation of the Gospel of Mark 
2. Jesus on Death Row: An Adaptation of the Gospel of Matthew 

2013

1. The Queering of an American Evangelical: The Sermons, Statements, and Prayers of a Southern Baptist Minister (The Collected Writings of Jeff Hood Book 1) 
2.  The Queer: An Interaction with the Gospel of John 

2010

1. A Beautiful Thing: Sermons from the Inaugural Festival of Young Preachers / Lee Huckelberry (contributor)

Selected Opinion Pieces

President Biden Should Follow Through on Ending the Death Penalty | Opinion, NEWSWEEK (March 28, 2024)

Kobach, Kansas Don’t Use Alabama’s Suffocation Execution, Kansas City Star (February 25, 2024)

I witnessed Alabama execute a man using nitrogen gas. It was horrific and cruel, USA TODAY (February 19, 2024)

Guest opinion: Rage and the Alabama execution of Kenneth Smith by the new method of nitrogen hypoxia, AL.COM (January 21, 2024)

Opinion: An Unlikely Friendship Forged after an Oklahoma Execution, Tulsa World (May 11, 2023)

Being Present After the Tornado, Arkansas Democrat Gazette (April 23, 2023) 

Guest Column: Calling for Stop to Executions, McAlester News-Capital (April 7, 2023)

Opinion: Consider Role of Today’s Death Penalty During Holy Week, Tulsa World (April 6, 2023)

Love is the Word: The Teachings of Rev. Jim Jones that Remain, jonestown report (October 21, 2022)

On “The Letter Killeth”, jonestown report (October 21, 2022)

On the Power of Love: A Peoples Temple Agricultural Project Parable, jonestown report (October 21, 2022)

The Queer God and a Stiff Peter – Interactions with Pentecost, TARKA (December 20, 2021)

Clarity: A Dense Personal/Theological Interaction with Rev. John Moore’s “Witness to Tragedy and Resurrection”, the jonestown report (September, 2021)

Bringing the Death Tape to Life: A Homily, the jonestown report (September, 2021)

God Showed Me the Light, Where Salvation is Found, Commentary, Denton Record-Chronicle (January 30, 2020)

It is Beyond Obvious Where God is Not, Commentary, Denton Record-Chronicle (October 24, 2019)

The Blasphemy of the Flag in Church, Commentary, Denton Record-Chronicle (September 26, 2019)

The Resurrection of Jonestown, the jonestown report (March, 2019)

Phenomenology / Healing & Rev. Jim Jones, the jonestown report (September, 2018)

God is not silent, the jonestown report (September, 2018)

Dreams and Nightmares: Prayers to the Father, the jonestown report (September, 2018) 

Microphones Ain’t Antennas, the jonestown report (September, 2018)

Good Friday is a time to consider what the death penalty is doing to our souls, Commentary, Dallas Morning News (March 29, 2018)

At year-one of Trump I pray for revolution, Commentary, Dallas Morning News (January 20, 2018)

Joseph Hutcheson’s death shows why Lupe Valdez isn’t qualified to be governor, Commentary, Dallas Morning News (December 8, 2017)

The Theology of Jonestown: Radical Explorations in Redemption, the jonestown report (October, 2017)

Jeff Hood: I made inflammatory comments last July 7 and I stand by them today, Commentary, Dallas Morning News (July 6, 2017)