Learning to See in the Dark

Name: Learning to See in the Dark
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ISBN: 9798231037940

Finding God on Death Row

Jeff Hood

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Complicit Press
03 March 2026

Theology; Spirituality & religious experience; Mind, body, spirit: meditation & visualisation

Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood has walked into execution chambers, stood beside men the state was preparing to kill, and witnessed what few ever see: the final hours of human consciousness under the shadow of state violence. Drawing from years accompanying men through their final moments, Hood describes a God who does not intervene, does not rescue, and does not explain-yet refuses to abandon.

In Learning to See in the Dark, Hood offers spiritual testimony born not in sanctuaries, but in death row cells and execution chambers. When identity collapses, when beliefs fall apart, when prayer goes unanswered, something deeper remains: awareness itself, presence, a sacredness the system cannot execute.

Through meditations on silence, identity, divine ""contamination,"" and the liturgy of dust and echoes, Learning to See in the Dark invites readers into a stripped-down spirituality that does not depend on innocence, redemption, or certainty. Unflinching and contemplative, this book is a manual for meeting the formless, unkillable awareness that remains when everything else is taken.

By: Jeff Hood
Imprint: Complicit Press
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 145g
ISBN: 9798231037940
Pages: 116
Publication Date: 03 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood is a theologian and spiritual advisor to death row inmates nationwide. He has accompanied eleven 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 Execution Intervention Project.