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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 amount of high-end religious training appears to have shaped Governor Jerry Brown’s conscience sufficiently for him to escape the all-too-familiar pattern of selling himself politically.
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Religion Dispatches
It’s impossible for me to think about the goings-on in the House Republican caucus without recalling the story of Jesus and the Gadarene (or Gerasene) demoniac in Mark 5. A lurid story if ever there was one, and…
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Religion Dispatches
Why can’t the Dems seem to be able to muster an ethical argument for Affordable Care?
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