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After 20 years in service, Three Crowns Park—A Covenant Living Community no longer employs Gerry, as of July 22, 2025.
Gerry became President of Evanston Nouveau Rotary Club on July 1, 2025.
For business related to the former publications Gay Chicago Magazine, Chicago Phoenix, and Opus Media, please refer to legal counsel.
Gerry is currently on leave as editor of GoPride.com—Chicago’s LGBT news site.

President of Evanston Nouveau Rotary Club

Gerry is Chicago Health Care Hero 2020

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Gerry’s Blog.
Next Chicago archbishop is important to Protestants, too
I disagree with plenty of Catholic theology—especially on LGBTQ and women’s issues. So why should I care? The answer is simple: Chicago.
‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ embodies my own complicated faith and theology
This 1991 film about friendship, food, and small-town Alabama perfectly shows the kind of Christian love that shapes my faith, despite its complex background spanning different spiritual traditions through the generations in my family in the far-off Ilocos and Hawaii.
Where decisions are made, representation matters
When those sitting at the table come from similar backgrounds and hold similar assumptions, we risk falling back into old patterns.
Evangelicals want Trump to attack Iran to bring Jesus back; Presbyterians disagree
As the Declaration of Faith reminds us, “We do not know when or how the final redemption of creation will be achieved. But we know that God will win.”
Famine is politically-willed manmade hunger; famine in Gaza is our sin
This is death by policy. Death by blockade. Death by indifference. And famine is always manmade.
Reconciling my indigenous beliefs with being a Church presbyter
My ancestors were told that their gods, their rituals, their ways of relating to the land were evil—and they were punished for honoring them.