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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

A Noblesse Oblige Recovery

The wealthiest Americans can afford their luxuries again. What about everyone else?
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Is Celibacy to Blame for Church Scandal?

Sex and ministry with Peter Laarman and Father Jim Martin.
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Worse Than the Robber Barons

We’ve always had unscrupulous tycoons, market manipulators and connivers, but we’ve never had as obnoxious a bunch of weasels on Wall Street. These morally deformed punks claim the right to undermine perfectly sensible (and sorely needed) regulation because we haven’t learned to make dishonest gain for ourselves in the ways they have become almost kabbalistically schooled in doing.
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