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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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Not Ready to Forgive: Hillary Clinton & the Ugly Truth of the Reagan Years 

Gay men of a certain age—those of us who survived the Plague Years when so many others perished, including our lovers and friends—may at times be oversensitive and even possessive in our memories of…
Peter Laarman
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Joined at the Hip: White Nationalist Christianity and Donald Trump

Why can’t Douthat admit that the apostasy he deplores is at the center of white Christianity and not at the margins?
Peter Laarman
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A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

Chances are you have heard something about the Rev. William Barber II. He is the giant of a man (in more senses than one) who launched the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina in 2013—a movement…
Peter Laarman
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