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The formula was always the same. Loud music. A speaker. A moment. A hand raised in the dark. He spent years near that bullshit before something broke him open wide enough to find a different Christ.
Drugged is the account of that breaking. A man is drugged, launched into space, and deposited on an alien world with five true believers and a mission he never agreed to. What he finds there - an ooze that speaks, asks the oldest question in the tradition, and refuses to stay in any category the formula ever built - is either blasphemy or the fullness of the incarnation. Probably both.
This is not systematic theology. It does not build from premises to conclusion. It moves the way encounter moves: disjointed, dreamlike, lit from underneath. It begins with a formula and ends with dissolution. Everything in between is the long, strange, beautiful work of learning to see Christ in forms the formula never prepared you for.
a publication of New Theology School Press
Jeff Hood
The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood is a theologian and spiritual advisor to death row inmates nationwide. He has accompanied over a dozen men to their executions and was the first spiritual advisor to be present for a nitrogen hypoxia execution. Rev. Hood has been profiled widely, including in the Rolling Stone documentary The Spiritual Advisor. He is the Founder of the Execution Intervention Project.
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