Jeff chu biography

Jeff Chu is author of Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America.

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Jeff Chu is an award-winning journalist, essayist, preacher, and speaker. He serves as an editor-at-large at Travel+Leisure magazine, teacher in residence at Crosspointe Church in Cary, N.C., and parish associate for storytelling and witness at the First Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, Calif. Over his eclectic journalistic career, Jeff Chu has interviewed presidents and paupers, corporate execs and preachers, Britney Spears and Ben Kingsley. As a writer and editor for Time, Conde Nast Portfolio, and Fast Company, he has compiled a portfolio that includes stories on megahit-making Swedish songwriters (a piece for which he went clubbing in Stockholm); James Bond (for which he stood on a Spanish beach and watched Halle Berry emerge from the waves over and over and over); undercover missionaries in the Arab world (he traveled to North Africa and went to church); and the decline of Christianity in Europe (he prayed). Senator John Warner once told Jeff: "You're a good little in

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Jeff Chu is a Princeton, New Jersey-based freelance reporter and writer as well as a seminarian at Princeton Theological Seminary. Most recently, I was a contributing editor at Modern Farmer (R.I.P., print edition). I was also on staff at Fast Company for almost eight years. During that time, I edited, wrote, and reported on lots of different things. The ones I liked? International affairs (I led our award-winning coverage of China), fashion and design, the intersection of business and social justice. As far as I know, my stories have only gotten two people fired (I was not one of the two).

My reporting and writing have also appeared in a bunch of other places—The New York Times Magazine, Travel+Leisure, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post. When big publishers were still starting magazines and pouring millions of dollars into them, I was an editor on the launch team of the now-defunct Conde Nast Portfolio. And before that, I spent seven years at Time magazine

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Jeff Chu

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Jeff Chu grew up in Berkeley, California, and Miami, Florida. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton, earned a master’s grad from the London School of Economics, and received French-American Foundation and Harvard Divinity School fellowships. He has written for Time, Condé Nast Portfolio, the Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company, winning Deadline Club and German Marshall Fund awards for his work. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Series

Books:

Does Jesus Really Love Me?, April 2013
Hardcover / e-Book