The Year of the Queer: Thoughts Blogs Letters and Sermons 2013-2014

A theologian historian and bioethicist by academic training Rev. Jeff Hood is a graduate of Auburn University the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Emory Universitys Candler School of Theology the University of Alabama Creighton University and is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry in Practical Theology at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. His ordination rests within the Southern Baptist Convention. A native of Atlanta Georgia Jeff currently lives in Denton Texas where he serves as a pastor to persons in communities throughout the region. As a theological activist and organizer Jeff serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty on the Statewide Steering Committee and as North Texas area director of Pastors for Texas Children and on the National Council of the Fellowship of Reconciliation USA. in 2013 Jeffs work as a spiritual organizer and activist was recognized by PFLAG Fort Worths Equality Award. Jeff is married to Emily and together they have three young sons twin toddlers Jeff III and Phillip and newborn Quinley. Jeff also maintains a closer friendship to Texas Death Row prisoner Will Speer. Jeff is the author of two other books The Queer: An interaction with The Gospel of John and The Queering of an American Evangelical. A Southern Queer and Christian Jeff is a committeed activist visionary writer and radical prophetic voice to a closed society.