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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
No, the sky didn’t fall with today’s SCOTUS decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. The Court majority siding with the Green family took care to claim that the decision’s impact will be very limited. They…
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Religion Dispatches
Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace by Frank Schaeffer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014 Take the moral law and make a nave of it…
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Religion Dispatches
My heart skipped a beat when I spotted Vincent Harding’s obituary in the New York Times. I only met Harding a couple of times (although I felt that I’d “met” him long before through his powerful…
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