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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

As the Old White South Rises Again Will Democrats Wilt For the Sake of National 'Reconciliation'?

Let me spare you the suspense: Yes, the Democrats will someday come to be ashamed of and to regret their shameless support for the disgusting and xenophobic Laken Riley Act, as Michelle Goldberg…
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

Historian Matthew Stewart Upends the Widespread Belief that 19th Century U.S. Christianity Was On 'The Right Side of History'

Might as well say it up front: I am one of many progressive Christians who choose to believe that for every 10 MAGA Christians there’s at least one (and possibly even three) standing up on the other…
Peter Laarman
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Religion Dispatches

Grab ‘n Go – Investigative Thriller Follows Covert Efforts to Control the Source of Life But Comes Up Short on Analysis

Mainly curiosity—along with a nudge from RD—got me to pay my eight bucks to watch The Grab , a new documentary just released on Amazon Prime.* Written and directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the film…
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