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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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Three Questions for Jeff Sessions

It’s never been truer that even the Devil can quote Scripture for his own purposes.
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Calling Trump’s Bee-Smitten Christians: You Think You Know What “Koinonia” Means?

Let’s have the required etymological look at the winning word and get it over with: Koinonia (/ˌkɔɪnoʊˈniːə/) is a transliterated form of the Greek word, κοινωνία, which means communion, joint…
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Paul Schrader's "First Reformed" Depicts Death Struggle Between Hope and Despair

A younger Paul Schrader might have chosen to end this film, which many critics are calling his masterpiece, in apocalyptic violence. But I don’t think it’s quite right to conclude that Schrader has simply mellowed in his eighth decade.
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