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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 09/11/2025

I'm beginning to think that most American Christians are functionally Pelagian when it comes to themselves but regard "the other," however they might define that, as essentially depraved.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 07/10/2025

Can't wait for this conversation on Sunday! Please join us if you're in the area.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 15/06/2025

A gorgeous sight, especially juxtaposed against the crowds who showed up for protests all across the country.

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Zachary Fryer-Biggs @zachfb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

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Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance

As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 03/06/2025

Loved every second talking with @chrisdstedman.bsky.social. Thanks to the team at Magers & Quinn—what a great bookstore!—and to all who showed up amidst the thunderstorms.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 16/05/2025

This country.... We are truly not far from the Hunger Games come to grotesque life.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 09/05/2025

Every few days, some ex-evangelical in my feed points fingers and says, "That's not Christianity." It's tiresome and also untrue. Christianity has multiple strands. Owning the harm *we* have done and acknowledging the injustice our family of faith still perpetuates would be more compelling.

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I know Pope Leo XIV to be a kind, open, humble, modest, decisive, hard-working, straightforward, trustworthy, and down-to-earth man. A brilliant choice. May God bless him.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 08/05/2025

"Peace be with you. This is the peace of the Risen Christ, a disarming and humble and preserving peace. It comes from God. God, who loves all of us, without any limits or conditions.... God loves us, all of us. Evil will not prevail." —Pope Leo XIV www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

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Pope Leo XIV: 'Peace be with all of you' - Vatican News

Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful and the world invoking peace and pledging to work for a united Church faithful to Jesus and to the Gospel.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 12/04/2025

My deep gratitude to @kcrwevan.bsky.social for having me on @kcrw.com's "Good Food" to talk about "Good Soil." It was a delight to talk about regenerating the land, how my father's people cook chicken, and, of course, my late grandmother's fried rice.

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Jeff Chu mediates on life's biggest questions while working the soil

Jeff Chu abandoned his career as a journalist to work the land and attend seminary, tilling up life lessons as well as a sense of calm.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 01/04/2025

Grateful to be on my friend Kate Bowler's podcast today, talking about compost, cooking, being small, and why Mary Oliver sometimes is super-annoying. katebowler.com/podcasts/goo...

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Jeff Chu: Good Soil

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Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A few words about the moon, the flowers, and the people who help me remember not to give up all hope. (Gift link via @nytopinion.nytimes.com.) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

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Opinion | The Blood Worm Moon and the Mustard Seed (Gift Article)

Despite our worst actions, nature still delivers us miracles, above and below.

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Chanequa Walker-Barnes @drchanequa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Stand up for Mahmoud Khalil like you hope a stranger would stand up for you. Because the way this administration is going, you may one day need it. Call your reps now, no matter what their political affiliation is.

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Blue Willow Bookshop @bluewillowbooks.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

We can't wait to welcome award-winning journalist @byjeffchu.com to Houston to celebrate his new book, GOOD SOIL! Jeff Chu will be in conversation with @sarahbessey.bsky.social. We highly recommend this book and hope you'll join us! Get your tickets now: buff.ly/43g1EVl

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 05/03/2025

I am so grieved by this speech, full of false witness and loathsome rhetoric, arrogance and attacks on the marginalized. It seems right and good that a penitential season should begin tomorrow.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 02/03/2025

So we finally watched "Conclave." Beautifully shot. Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini were great; Stanley Tucci too. But that conclusion? Come on. Habemus a ridiculous ending.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 01/03/2025

A+ to these protest signs.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 01/03/2025

Houston: Please come and hang out with @sarahbessey.bsky.social and me!

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 01/03/2025

"Greatness" does not shame or bully, lie or demand gratitude.

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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

"To feel the bedrock of your theology shifting might sound abstract, but it’s almost impossible to underestimate the terror it brings for someone who has made this their whole life." Remarkable and unusual essay: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Opinion | How My Dad Reconciled His God and His Gay Son

How did my dad go from hating homosexuality to imploding his church by embracing me? His journal entries show how he changed his mind.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 06/02/2025

"Good Soil" Book Tour, Part I! Would love to see you at one of these stops. Details at byjeffchu.com/tour.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 03/02/2025

You cannot make this stuff up: This guy is our new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. Yes, you read that correctly: *for public diplomacy*—a role that involves leading the State Department's outreach and communications.

Tweet from Darren J. Beattie that reads: "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men."

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14/01/2025

I once used two sets of em dashes and a semicolon in one sentence and I have never felt so alive

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 02/01/2025

The duck is a traditional Chinese symbol for fidelity and devotion. I guess it's going to take that kind of loyalty for this lifelong Oregon Ducks fan ever to see a national championship.

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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

local news headline that is indisputably, eternally true

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 11/12/2024

For those who aren't feeling much Christmas spirit: Bless you who feel grumpy, you who are blah. May you be met right where you are. Bless you who are weary, you who are flailing. May you find rest.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 11/12/2024

"He is our new hero!" seems to be the modern American equivalent to the ancient "Give us a king!"

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 08/12/2024

I've been struck by the frequency with which leaders of both parties talk about their ambitions to boost the "lethality" of the U.S. military. It troubles me. War has no winners. Even those who claim victory suffer tremendous losses. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/u...

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Top-Gun Navy Pilots Fly at the Extremes. Their Brains May Suffer.

A confidential Navy program is studying whether intense fighter jet operations can cause devastating brain injuries in flight crews.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 01/12/2024

Even as I wish it weren't necessary and even as I know some folks might not get it, I deeply admire Sarah McBride's almost painfully gracious posture. It takes such fortitude and groundedness to hold and make space as she does. "I am maintaining my power," she said, "by turning the other cheek."

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Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights

The first trans person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from her new colleagues in the House.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 19/11/2024

Neil Postman warned of the shriveling of the American mind and spirit, in which "culture becomes a burlesque." This administration seems dangerously beyond even his wildest warnings.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 18/11/2024

"If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong..." —Martin Luther

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 18/11/2024

"bleet" is better than "skeet."

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It’s mostly white people who talk about echo chambers. Maybe you need the internet to meet people with different ideas but the rest of us do not. We know what the “other side” thinks because we deal with it every day! Everywhere! We’re fine. Carry on. Happy Saturday!

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 17/11/2024

Sometimes I wonder if white progressive Christians, especially those who used to be evangelical, are so busy looking in the mirror or back at the white evangelical churches they left that they forget the rest of us exist. But, sure, keep talking about justice and "the Church."

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 16/11/2024

Yes, this is what the place feels like right now. 😬 (My favorite dinosaur is the stegosaurus—peaceable, striking, a bit slow, underestimated because of the size of its brain.)

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 16/11/2024

I just wrote, then rewrote, then instantly deleted 12 skeets, just like in the rollicking old days of That Other Place. Feels so good to be back!

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 13/11/2024

The writers of this season of the show are really pushing the boundaries now.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 12/11/2024

Forgot about the Bluesky. Hello, lovely humans!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

At some point we just need to acknowledge that nothing will satisfy other than the near-total resegregation of elite and governing institutions in the United States.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 30/12/2023

This whole conversation is weirdly delightful.

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Jeff Chu @byjeffchu.com · 06/11/2023

Tempted to just make this a Fozzie-appreciation feed.

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