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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.

Politics/LawJune 18, 2009

Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

The Employee Free Choice Act will go a long way toward expanding workplace democracy. Progressive religious leaders, whatever their disagreements might be, must come together to support the restoring of dignity to those who labor honestly.

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawJune 17, 2009

RDPulpit: Israel, The Great Unmentionable

By Peter Laarman

Christians should neither excoriate Israel nor remain silent in the face of horrendous attacks in Gaza and elsewhere. Rather, according to Rev. Laarman, American Christians must heed King and make the issue about US policy and the kind of nation we aspire to be.

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawJune 17, 2009

Bush’s Favorite Catholic Departs The Scene

By Peter Laarman

Rev. Richard John Neuhaus broke with the Left and helped, throughout his influential career, to broker allegiances between conservative Protestants and Roman Catholics—especially around hot-button issues like stem-cell research, abortion, and gay marriage.

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(A)theologies, Culture, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 16, 2009

RDPulpit: To the ‘Furiously Raging’ Religious Right

By Peter Laarman

Newsweek actually gets religion, writes the author of the recent gay marriage issue. It’s the Christian Right culture warriors who claim that God possesses their prejudices who are mistaken.

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(A)theologies, Culture, Politics/LawJune 14, 2009

In Markets We Trust

By Peter Laarman

From traders rubbing the testicles of the New York Stock Exchange’s Golden Bull to the pantheon of saints, soothsayers and heretics who haunt it, the Free Market has earned its status as a cult.

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(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 11, 2009

Leahy’s Immigration Provision Sows Sex Panic Among Key Religious Groups

By Peter Laarman

Who is really pointing the dagger to the heart of immigration reform, the senator who seeks to include permanent partners (including gays) or the Bishops and evangelicals who oppose it?

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawJune 1, 2009

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

Why has so much religious leadership come to look like “the bland leading the bland”? On the occasion of Pentecost, we present a romp through the wide range of Protestantisms, and answer the question: Why is that biblical book called “Acts” and not “Lazing About”?

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Politics/LawMay 27, 2009

Prop. 8 Upheld: Bad Religion’s Comeback in the Golden State

By Peter Laarman

Religious groups used scare tactics, and a lot of money, to sway the vote on Prop. 8—so why are some of their leaders being welcomed at the “progressive” table?

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Politics/LawMay 8, 2009

“Stress Test” a Con: Obama Still Coddling Banks

By Peter Laarman

“Asking” the banks how they “feel” may be politically shrewd, but it’s morally bankrupt.

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As Larry Summers Gently Sleeps: Will Obama Ever Turn Against Plutocracy?
Politics/LawApril 25, 2009

As Larry Summers Gently Sleeps: Will Obama Ever Turn Against Plutocracy?

By Peter Laarman

Larry Summers can’t keep his eyes open for 30 frickin minutes while his President speaks of the need for the banks to play fair. Is there no more fitting symbol?

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