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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
Mitt Romney’s endorsement by various televangelists obscures the more important ways in which the candidate himself now projects the essence of televangelism.
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Religion Dispatches
Reasons to cheer—and possibly fear.
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Religion Dispatches
All the invocations of God’s name and snippets of the Bible and Nuns On the Bus and what have you can’t really help the Democrats so long as the larger religiously-tinged framing about what’s good and what’s bad remain untouched.
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