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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

Honoring and Renewing Dr. King's Other, More Challenging, Dream — 55 Years Later

Fifty-four years ago—on April 4, 1968—Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Exactly one year earlier—on April 4, 1967—Dr. King created a huge furor by coming out strongly against the…
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

The Missing Element in the Conversation on Christian Nationalism and Freedom: Whiteness

A new report released Wednesday by a trio of groups, both Christian and secular, on the role played by white Christian nationalists in the January 6 storming of the Capitol will open some eyes, and…
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

Response: Is Proselytizing Offensive? Sure. But I Won't Give Them the Satisfaction of Martyrdom

My colleague Chrissy Stroop’s powerful excoriation of evangelical Christian proselytizing pushed the predictable buttons among many readers. I’m guessing that she was glad to sit back and savor the…
Peter Laarman
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