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Notes of a Make-Believe Farmer

Jeff Chu 朱天慧
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    Author, Does Jesus Really Love Me? Co-author, w/ the late Rachel Held Evans, of the NYT best-seller Wholehearted Faith. Editor-at-large, Travel+Leisure. Teacher in Residence, Crosspointe Church (N.C.). Ex-farmhand. I don't really know what I'm doing.

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