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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

For Unto (Some of) Us a Child is Born: Handel's Messiah and the Voice of Empire Rising

‘Tis the season for Christian supersessionism.
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

Shameful GOP Tax Plan Taxes Reality

Okay, we’re off to the races on what the White House and GOP Congressional leadership agree is their “do or die” effort to look vaguely credible, having struck out so far on repealing Obamacare and…
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

Paul for the People: John Dominic Crossan Imagines a "Letter to the Americans" In His New Video Series

John Dominic Crossan: “Scholarly research on the Bible is inadequate or irrelevant if at least some of the scholars do not communicate their insights to laypeople who are eager to think and who are aware that baptism is not the same as lobotomy.”
Peter Laarman
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