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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
From handing Paul Ryan a marked-up Bible, to a “must-see” video challenging conservative embrace of both Ayn Rand and Jesus, efforts to turn the Republican Party’s ostentatious religious posture against it miss the point.
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Religion Dispatches
Twilight wars in the Middle East, Japan’s nuclear catastrophe, Deepwater Horizon, worldwide crop failures, massive die-offs of long-established species: it’s all so very scary.
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Religion Dispatches
A “Judeo-Christian” nation should know that screwing workers is totally abhorrent to the God of the bible.
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