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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

"Give Me Your White, Your Rich... Yearning to Earn Fees"

In honor of the shameful refusal to accept Syrian refugees, a rewrite of the “Statue of Liberty” poem.
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

White People Dying Younger Because of...Moral Turpitude? Give Us a Break

The chattering classes are all agog to learn from ​two Princeton economists that white working-class America has been having an even harder time of it than was suspected. To wit, lower-educated white…
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

Will House "Freedom" Group's Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

Where, oh where, are the “budget is a moral document” types when we really need them? I don’t know about you, but I hear nary a peep about the debt ceiling standoff from DC’s Religion Industrial…
Peter Laarman
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