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In his late thirties, Jeff Chu left his job as a magazine writer and found himself at Princeton Theological Seminary’s “Farminary”—a twenty-one-acre working farm where students learn to cultivate the earth while examining life’s biggest questions. Now, he unpacks what he learned about creating “good soil,” both literally and figuratively, drawing lessons from the rhythms of growth, decay, and regeneration that define life on the land.
Join us for this exclusive conversation between Chu and Krista Tippett, host of On Being. Together, they’ll discuss the new book and why, at a time when we seem most drawn to the phones in our hands, we need to connect to the land.
Ticket Information General Admission: $30 General Admission + copy of Good Soil: $50 Student Ticket (Seminary and University): $15 Student Ticket + copy of Good Soil: $35
Books will be available for purchase on the day of the event through Labyrinth Books.
Jeff Chu is an award-winning journalist and editor-at-large at Travel+Leisure. He is the author of Does Jesus Really Love Me? and the co-author, with the late Rachel Held Evans, of the New York Times bestseller Wholehearted Faith. Chu is a former Time staff writer and Fast Company editor whose work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Modern Farmer. In his weekly newsletter, “Notes of a Make-Believe Farmer,” Chu writes about spirituality, gardening, food, travel, and culture. He lives with his husband, Tristan, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Krista Tippett is a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, a National Humanities Medalist, and a New York Times bestselling author. After studying theology at Yale Divinity School in the early 1990s, she saw a black hole where intelligent public conversation about the religious, spiritual, and moral aspects of human life might be. She pitched and piloted her idea for several years before launching Speaking of Faith — later On Being — as a weekly national public radio show (initially based at Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media) in 2003. In 2011, she created the Civil Conversations Project, now an ever-evolving body of shows and public events. In 2013, Krista and a team of four producers took On Being and the Civil Conversations Project into independent, non-profit production with a work/studio/event space on Loring Park in Minneapolis — and The On Being Project was born. She has published three books: Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living; Einstein’s God, drawn from her interviews at the intersection of science, medicine, and spiritual inquiry; and Speaking of Faith, a memoir of religion in our time.
