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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
What a significant part of the political class disparages as Bernie Sanders’ egomania may actually reflect something else, something that is morally quite far removed from garden variety egoism…
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Religion Dispatches
Credit where credit is due. Ted Cruz has a way about him. A way that is sanctimonious, oleaginous, and false. I have been reading and hearing that there is considerable mourning among the ranks of the…
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Religion Dispatches
I should say right away that this is no brief for the Sanders candidacy. I am sympathetic to both sides of the discussion. I myself am a realist. But I am also highly intrigued by the “unrealistic”…
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