{"id":82993,"date":"2018-10-15T16:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=82993"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:45:40","slug":"commentary-by-jeff-hood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=82993","title":{"rendered":"Commentaries by Jeff Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-93220\" src=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-1.png 225w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood<\/strong> is a Baptist pastor, theologian and activist living and working in Arkansas.\u00a0Dr. Hood\u2019s extensive work has appeared in numerous media outlets, including in the <em>Dallas Morning News, Huffington Post, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Los Angeles Times, WIRED<\/em> magazine and on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and NPR.\u00a0He writes regularly at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jeffhood\/\">https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jeffhood\/<\/a>. He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:jeffrey.k.hood@gmail.com\">jeffrey.k.hood@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=135598\">Father Andrew Morrison and \u201cRev.\u201d Jim Jones: Conscience Meets Charisma<\/a> (2026) <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/images\/new2.jpg\" alt=\"NEW\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=131689\">Facing Jim Jones &#038; Jonestown: In Defense of My Hope for Universal Reconciliation<\/a> (2025) <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/images\/new2.jpg\" alt=\"NEW\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=128126\">Embraced Bodies Still Preach<\/a> (2024)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=128596\">The Monsters in Us<\/a> (2024)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=123926\">The Death Penalty, The Death Tape &amp; The Modern Murderous Path of Jim Jones<\/a> (2023)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=118004\">Love is the Word: The Teachings of Rev. Jim Jones that Remain<\/a> (2022)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=118009\">On \u201cThe Letter Killeth\u201d<\/a> (2022)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=118011\">On the Power of Love: A Peoples Temple Agricultural Project Parable<\/a> (2022)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=111229\">Clarity: A Dense Personal\/Theological Interaction with Rev. John Moore\u2019s \u201cWitness to Tragedy and Resurrection\u201d<\/a> (2021)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=111285\">Bringing the Death Tape to Life: A Homily<\/a> (2021)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=102258\">A Jonestown Trilogy<\/a> (2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101016\">The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones: A Ten-Volume Set<\/a> (2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=87539\">The Resurrection of Jonestown<\/a> (2019)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81433\">Phenomenology \/ Healing &amp; Rev. Jim Jones<\/a> (2018)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81439\">God is not silent<\/a> (2018)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81442\">Dreams and Nightmares: Prayers to the Father<\/a> (2018)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=81444\">Microphones Ain\u2019t Antennas<\/a> (2018)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70909\">The Theology of Jonestown: Radical Explorations in Redemption<\/a> (2017)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood is a Baptist pastor, theologian and activist living and working in Arkansas.\u00a0Dr. Hood\u2019s extensive work has appeared in numerous media outlets, including in the Dallas Morning News, Huffington Post, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Los Angeles Times, WIRED magazine and on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":18142,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82993","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82993"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135608,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82993\/revisions\/135608"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}