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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 Test of the Prophetic Imagination: Seeing a “Good Liberal” in All His Corrupt Glory

Barney Frank drops the ball on consumer protection.
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

A Great Gulf Fixed: Implications of the Vanishing Religious Middle

Results of a new poll show that in matters of religion the right and left are in different universes. Why, then, are progressives so insistent on finding common ground?
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

A Whiter Shade of Faith: Saturday’s Tax Protests and the Religion of Whiteness

Dick Armey mobilized his protest troops at the Capitol this weekend, and prompted this meditation from our columnist on the dangerous nostalgia for white dominance—then and now—that this anti-Obama movement calls forth.
Peter Laarman
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