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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
Once again, despite having little to no expertise in the area, Jim Wallis has been tapped to give the progressive position. This time it’s the critical Employee Free Choice Act.
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Religion Dispatches
Is this deference to bankers among the American religious an historical curiosity or de rigueur behavior? Let us hear from you!
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Religion Dispatches
The president boasted that America will be “back” economically, but can we can afford to go back to the kind of economy we had during the house of cards period?
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