In the midst of the violence of being, Jeff Hood survived 2016. This is a collection of writings to illustrate how. Jeff Hood is an activist and theologian. A graduate of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Emory University amongst other institutions, Hood earned his doctorate with a focus in Queer Theology at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. Hood has repeatedly been arrested seeking liberation for the marginalized and oppressed. In addition to authoring sixteen books and blogging regularly for the The Huffington Post and Patheos, Hood writes daily at revjeffhood.com.