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LiberalArkie

(16,997 posts) Mon Jan 20, 2025, 11:18 AM Jan 20

Little Rock priest calls for resistance to Trump in fiery sermon

Priest Jeff Hood speaks at Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church.

A Little Rock priest called on Christians to resist the policies of incoming President Donald Trump during a fiery homily that minced no words at a service at Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church Sunday.

“Who is ready to go to prison?” asked Jeff Hood, theologian-in-residence at the SoMa church about two blocks from the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion. Hood delivered a brief homily during a service called Resistance Sunday, a day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Speaking from a pulpit below a large banner emblazoned with the word “RESIST,” Hood said followers of Jesus have no choice but to push back on Trump’s policies. Trump will be sworn in as the nation’s 47th president at noon tomorrow.

Calling Trump the big orange elephant in the room, Hood provided a sharp-edged critique of Trump and guidance for how Christians should behave during a second Trump term.

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https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2025/01/19/little-rock-priest-calls-for-resistance-to-trump-in-fiery-sermon

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Little Rock priest calls for resistance to Trump in fiery sermon (Original Post) LiberalArkie Jan 20 OP

Methodists have ministers 4catsmom Jan 20 #1

He is an Old Catholic Church priest LiberalArkie Jan 20 #2

Thanks for that explanation RazorbackExpat Jan 21 #3

4catsmom

(411 posts)

1. Methodists have ministers

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 12:50 PM

Jan 20

not priests, I thought. But I like this guy. he's not afraid to speak the truth

LiberalArkie

(16,997 posts)

2. He is an Old Catholic Church priest

Reply to 4catsmom (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 12:59 PM

Jan 20

In addition to serving as the Quapaw church’s resident theologian, Hood is the priest of St. Oscar Romero Catholic Church, which meets in the chapel of the Quapaw church. Hood’s church is aligned with the Old Catholic Church, a branch of Catholicism that splintered from the main Roman Catholic Church after a church convention in 1870.

RazorbackExpat

(236 posts)

3. Thanks for that explanation

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:55 AM

Jan 21

Back in the '70s, I thought the state was finally getting it together and moving out of the Dixiecrat era. In the previous decade, we had elected a progressive Republican as governor, as well as an anti-war Democrat for Senate, but the state just couldn't pull itself away from its segregationist roots when it voted for an avowed segregationist in George Wallace for President. If Bobby Kennedy had lived and gotten the nomination, I believe the state would have voted for Bobby.

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