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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

The Endgame on Health Reform: Religious Progressives Need to Keep Critical Perspective

Is Universal Coverage the only moral touchstone in health care reform? Religious progressives need to think again.
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

‘Soul Murder’ in the American Workplace

As the media yawns at the latest unemployment numbers, our columnist seeks religious leadership on the taboo subject of our dysfunctional relationship to work. For even if the economy recovers and “full employment” returns, we will still be encountering a workplace that remains a site of utter terror in some instances and a site of routine abuse and low-grade anxiety in others.
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

That Mercenary Feeling: What the Apparently Unlimited Use of “Contractors” Says About American Empire in Afghanistan and Iraq

Nothing like dropping in a lot of trigger-happy hired guns to win hearts and minds, right?
Peter Laarman
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