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		<title>An Appeal to Join the Execution Intervention Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Letter from The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood Founder, Execution Intervention Project How Moral Failure Forms We tend to think of moral failure as something explosive and obvious…a headline event, a singular action that can be pointed to, condemned, and punished. This way of thinking is comforting because it allows us to believe that wrongdoing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dissociation is the Root of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dissociation and The Geography of the Chest There is a geography of the chest. A ribcage that arches like a vaulted ceiling. Lungs that open and close like uncertain wings. A heart the size of a fist…always a fist. When a bomb falls on a city you have never visited, in a country your leaders [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Transfiguration &#038; Geopolitics: Listening in an Age of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Matthew 17:1-9 Six days later, Jesus took Peter, James, and John up a high mountain by themselves, and there, before their eyes, His appearance was transformed—His face shining like the sun and His clothes becoming dazzling white. Suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared and began talking with Him. Overwhelmed, Peter blurted out, “Lord, it’s good [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Justice Sonia Sotomayor : Hollow Words Without Action</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Hood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Justice Sonia Sotomayor is Troubled, and Voting Yes Anyway Justice Sonia Sotomayor is troubled. She wants you to know that. In her statement accompanying the Supreme Court’s denial of a stay of execution for Melvin Trotter, she spends four pages cataloguing her concerns about Florida’s secretive, potentially botched execution practices…expired drugs, incorrect doses, nonprotocol substances, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Melvin Trotter: The Name We Are About to Forget</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Hood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Melvin Trotter: The Forgotten Name There is a particular kind of silence that follows an execution. Not peace. Not resolution. Just a door closing on something that cannot be reopened. Florida is moving toward that silence tonight. What does it mean to kill someone in the name of justice? What does it cost? And are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bread Alone?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Hood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bread Alone? Matthew 4:1–11 The desert was quiet in a way that presses against your chest. No markets, no crowds, no debates. Just wind dragging sand across stone…and a man at the end of forty days with nothing left but hunger and whatever faith he had left. That’s when the tempter came. Not as a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ash Wednesday: The Call of the Dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Weight of Ash Wednesday Beloved, today we receive ashes upon our foreheads, not as decoration or ritual, but as a truth we cannot outrun. Dust you are, and to dust you shall return. These words are not meant to humiliate us. They are meant to awaken us. They strip away illusion. They remind us [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Death Penalty and the Prophetic Legacy of Jesse Jackson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jesse Jackson and the Death Penalty The passing of Reverend Jesse Jackson invites not only remembrance but honest moral examination. His life stretched across movements, presidencies and generations, yet one thread remained constant…his insistence that the value of human life could not be bargained away for the sake of political convenience or public fear. Among [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Deadly Hearts : On Matthew 5:21-22</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“You’ve been taught since childhood: don’t murder, and murderers will face the courts. But I’m telling you something more costly—anyone nursing rage against another person is already standing in that courtroom. Anyone who treats another human being with contempt has already begun walking down the road that ends in violence.” –Matthew 5:21-22 From the Hand [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Untold Struggle of Death Penalty Habeas Attorneys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Death Penalty Habeas Attorneys The writ of habeas corpus stands as the final bulwark between a condemned prisoner and execution…the last opportunity to uncover constitutional violations, newly discovered evidence or fundamental miscarriages of justice. In windowless cells across America, people wait for attorneys who hold their lives in manila folders and legal briefs. Some of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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