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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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Religion Dispatches
For almost ten years now, the folks at Sojourners and other progressive evangelical outfits have been reminding us that ” budgets are moral documents.” All well and good. I agree. But I will add that…
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Religion Dispatches
The news of Louise Hay’s death took me right back to the mid-1980s and the worst of the AIDS crisis, when her books and tapes were everywhere in the homes and hospital rooms of the sick and dying. Out…
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Religion Dispatches
We learned last week that Trump the Enabler doesn’t need Steve Bannon at his side in order to spew white nationalist tripe. Throwing more fuel onto an already raging fire, Trump gave new vigor to alt…
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