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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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No Time for Casual Faith: The First Unitarian Woman Elected President on our Urgent Moment

As an activist local minister in Phoenix, Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray was deeply immersed in fighting ICE deportations when, in 2016, she entered the race​ for president of the Unitarian Universalist…
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Netflix's Carlton Pearson Biopic, "Come Sunday," Reveals Christianity's Struggle for its Soul

What’s the message, Bishop? That question, asked by the church’s closeted gay music director, Reggie (a convincing Lakeith Stanfield), provides the hinge for the whole Carlton Pearson story in the…
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A Locked and Loaded Covenant: The Religious Roots of America's Gun Culture

Garry Wills was being only slightly ironic when he wrote (in the wake of the ghastly Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando) that it is “theologically inconceivable” to implement real gun control in the…
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