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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

Clinton on “A Syndicate of Terror”

Could we just look in the mirror, please?
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

Escalating Afghanistan: What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?

Don’t the clergy have a duty to challenge the march of folly in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

Slouching Towards Lake Wobegon; Searching for Meaning in the Google Cloud

Has the shift from sociability to social-networking left Garrison Keillor clinging to his Wobegone Lutherans of yesteryear? What of the glaring problems of those “simpler times?”
Peter Laarman
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