Gerald Liu 04T

Born in Mississippi as the youngest son of non-practicing Buddhist immigrants from Taiwan, the Reverend Gerald C. Liu, PhD (Candler MDiv. 2004) is a minister, former professor, and recovering church bureaucrat who has traversed 6 continents to help increase the love of God and neighbor. He holds honorifics as Minister in Residence at The United Methodist Church of the Village and as Honorary Ecumenical Minister at the Episcopal St. John’s in the Village in the West Village neighborhood of New York. He last taught worship and preaching in a tenure-track line at Princeton Theological Seminary (2016-20/21). He has overseen and served as a consultant for million dollar budgets at national and state levels of the United Methodist Church related to collegiate ministries, new church development, and the renewal of mostly rural congregations gutted by disagreements over the marriage and ordination of LGBTQIA+ persons (2021-25). As he looks for his next professional step within or beyond conventional 'ministry,' he is thankful to be teaching 6th-grade Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and 8th-grade Church History as a leave-replacement for the 2025-26 school year to “young women of conscience and action” at The School of The Holy Child in Rye, New York, an all-girls Roman Catholic independent and college-preparatory 5th-12th grade school. Around that age is when he discovered the transformational mercy and power of Jesus and he looks forward to how he might make a more of a dent there than within the calcified institutions he has previously served.