A couple of days ago, Kate Bowler interviewed Jeff Chu on her podcast “Everything Happens.” Jeff Chu is a journalist, an author, a pastor, and one of the most interesting people in the progressive persons of faith atmosphere. Along with Sarah Bessey and the late Rachel Held Evans, he is one of the founders of “Evolving Faith,” a movment that fashions itself as a home for persons of faith who are deconstructing a faith that has turned out over time to be toxic, meaningless, or both. Jeanne and I attended the 2023 Evolving Faith Conference in Minneapolis, a wonderful experience that turned out to be the beginning of Jeanne’s path to Lutheran seminary and future ordination.
Jeff Chu was asked to finish Rachel Held Evans’ final, unfinished manuscript upon her untimely death in 2019. The result, Wholehearted Faith, ia beautiful–I highly recommend it. While studying at Princeton Theological Seminary, he took a course called “Theology of Agriculture” that took him and his fellow students to a plot of land called the “Farminary” just outside of town. I wrote about his experiences and the insights he gained while at the Farminary a couple of years ago–enjoy!
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