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Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Peter Laarman

Peter Laarman is a United Church of Christ minister who served as senior minister of New York’s Judson Memorial Church and then as executive director of LA’s Progressive Christians Uniting before retiring in 2014. He remains deeply involved in national and regional social justice projects touching on race, class, and religion.

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Religion Dispatches

Surprising New Poll on Evangelicals and Religious Exceptions

The wide-ranging poll includes disparate views on candidates facing harassment accusations, gag rules, contraception, and more.
Peter Laarman
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Old Testament 'Bad,' New Testament 'Good': A Dangerous (and Mistaken) Assumption

Oops, we just threw the Jewish tradition under the bus again. So sorry. We didn’t mean it. Really.
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

Kavanaugh, Yawn: Where's Our Thirty-Year Plan?

When will we unite the fragments of important and useful single-issue activism under a shared understanding that we need to slay the dragon of finance capitalism joined to white supremacy?
Peter Laarman
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