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Jeff Chu

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đź“š: Does Jesus Really Love Me? + Wholehearted Faith (w/ RHE); @travelleisure editor-at-large | email: jeff@byjeffchu.com | may or may not be notable

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Jeff is an award-winning journalist, essayist, and author who currently serves as editor at large at Travel+Leisure. He is the author of "Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America" (Harper, 2013) and the forthcoming "Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand" (Convergent, 2025). He is also the co-author, with the late Rachel Held Evans, of the New York Times bestseller "Wholehearted Faith" (HarperOne, 2021).

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Sonderbooks Book Review of

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By Jeff Chu
| sonderbooks.com
Good Soil The Education of an Accidental Farmhand Review posted May 7, 2026. Convergent, 2025. 317 pages. Review written March 24, 2026, from my own copy, purchased via Amazon.com. Good Soil is a memoir about Jeff Chu's time as a student and worker at the Farminary - a farm owned by Princeton Theological Seminary that hosted classes. The book is meditative about spiritual things and about issues he was dealing with in his life.
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South Of Singapore, The Past Blooms In Shop Houses And Spice-Laden Streets Of Johor Bahru

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By Jeff Chu
| Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia
Home Destinations South Of Singapore, The Past Blooms In Shop Houses And Spice-Laden Streets Of Johor Bahru Jalan Tan Hiok Nee, a street in Johor Bahru, Malaysia (Photo Credit: Faris Mustafa) Once upon a time, a dynasty with a fleet of swift warships established an empire stretching from the tip of the Malay Peninsula across the Southeast Asian seas. It exported ivory, timber, and spices, using the revenues to buy tobacco, silk, and porcelain from abroad.
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This Malaysian State Long Overshadowed by Singapore Is Having a Moment—Here’s Why Now Original

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By Jeff Chu
| Travel + Leisure
Jalan Tan Hiok Nee, a street in Johor Bahru. Credit: Faris Mustafa/Travel + Leisure Once upon a time, a dynasty with a fleet of swift warships established an empire stretching from the tip of the Malay Peninsula across the Southeast Asian seas. It exported ivory, timber, and spices, using the revenues to buy tobacco, silk, and porcelain from abroad. Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, alliances with various European powers shifted and forts rose, then fell into piles of matchsticks.
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