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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.

(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, Peter LaarmanMay 28, 2015

Critiques, Questions, and Sauve-qui-Peut: Looking Toward the Future of American Christianit(ies)

By Peter Laarman

The terrain is indeed shifting as the latest Pew survey results suggest, but it’s not…

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Archive, StoriesMarch 10, 2015

“This is a Homosexual Bar, Jesus”: Malcolm Boyd, 1924-2015

By Peter Laarman

Remembering a church leader who had the courage to out himself just in time for the rise of the Moral Majority

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(A)theologies, Archive, Books, Peter Laarman, Politics/Law, StoriesFebruary 12, 2015

America’s Savior: Lincolnolatry’s Hidden Cost

By Peter Laarman

I plead guilty right up front to once participating in the cult I intend to…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, Politics/Law, Sexuality/Gender, StoriesDecember 22, 2014

Top Five Toxic Religion Stories of 2014

By Peter Laarman

From religious violence to fear of contagion to economic and racial injustice: taking full measure of what we are up against.

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(A)theologies, OMFG, Peter LaarmanDecember 10, 2014

Torture Denial: U.S. Flunks the Religious Acid Test

By Peter Laarman

The U.S. has been publicly, globally, shamed in consequence of the gut-wrenching disclosures in the Torture…

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Archive, Peter Laarman, StoriesOctober 14, 2014

Ebola and Us: The American Roots of Liberia’s Trauma

By Peter Laarman

Does America have a moral obligation to a country that Christian perfectionism and ethnic cleansing helped to establish?

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(A)theologies, Archive, StoriesSeptember 14, 2014

Let Us Now Praise Wealthy Men? Structural Poverty, Religiously (Re)Considered

By Peter Laarman

Joerg Rieger, a leading theological thinker in relation to economic injustice, is also a principal presenter…

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(A)theologies, OMFG, Peter Laarman, Science & TechnologyAugust 21, 2014

Google Data Reveal Poor Have An Interest Above “Dark” Religion

By Peter Laarman

The estimable David Leonhardt made a media thing happen over the past few days with…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, StoriesJuly 3, 2014

The Fourth of July Is Not America’s Birthday

By Peter Laarman

No, in July of 2014 we don’t face the urgent threat of an established church, but we do face an ongoing struggle with those abusing freedom of religion.

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OMFG, Peter Laarman, Sexuality/GenderJune 30, 2014

Hobby Lobby Wins; So What?

By Peter Laarman

No, the sky didn’t fall with today’s SCOTUS decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. The…

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