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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
Dan Schultz gets it exactly right: Democrats don’t need to learn to speak the language of faith in order to win. Predictably, Dan’s analysis—in two recent pieces here in RD—provoked consternation…
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Religion Dispatches
With its heavily-promoted #ResistMarch, the West Hollywood gay establishment is trying to signal that the usual L.A. Pride routine of holding a big drunken street festival might be in slightly poor…
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Religion Dispatches
“Donald Trump has named his most likely challenger in the 2020 presidential election,” the Guardian’s David Smith reported this morning, “It is Elizabeth Warren.” The president called Warren out…
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