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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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Paul Schrader's "First Reformed" Depicts Death Struggle Between Hope and Despair

Warning: numerous spoilers ahead. “Who will release me from the body of this death?” This question, posed rhetorically in Paul’s Letter to the Romans, has become a real question for the Rev. Ernst…
Peter Laarman
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Update #2: No Safe Place For Truthtellers: A Larger Frame For the House Chaplain Brouhaha

Pundits that play the story as merely another “unforced error” on Ryan’s part miss this crucial point about the containable rage of the exposed despoilers toward someone who is, by all accounts, a mild-mannered and well-regarded figure.
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Update #2: No Safe Place for Truthtellers: A Larger Frame for the House Chaplain Brouhaha

Update: Politico reports that Chaplain Patrick Conroy has rescinded his resignation and will remain House Chaplain through the end of this Congress. That’s through the end of the calendar year for…
Peter Laarman
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