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Calendar.

March 3-6. Presbyterian Church (USA) campus. Louisville, Ky.
June 22-July 2. 227th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Milwaukee, Wis.
August 30. Speaker. Fourth Presbyterian Church. Chicago, Ill.
October 6-21. Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Gerry marches against gun violence in Milwaukee as Commissioner of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

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Recent reading.

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The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling

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Sea People by Christina Thompson

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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

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Death in the Haymarket by James Green

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Above the Salt by Katherine Vaz

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The Life of Herod the Great by Zora Neale Hurston

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President of Evanston Nouveau Rotary Club 2025-26

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Recent writing.

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Gerald Farinas 7/14/25 Gerald Farinas 7/14/25

Cuomo is kneecapping Dems by challenging Mamdani; he’s protecting party elites

This is the branch of the Democratic Party that will sabotage the people’s choice to keep themselves in control.

Gerald Farinas 7/3/25 Gerald Farinas 7/3/25

I am endorsing Hoan Huynh for Congress in the Illinois ninth district

This endorsement is personal and not in my capacity as an officer of any civic organizations, publisher and writer of any publications, director of a social service provider, elder of a Church.