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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, Books, OMFG, Peter Laarman, Politics/LawMarch 7, 2018

A Locked and Loaded Covenant: The Religious Roots of America’s Gun Culture

By Peter Laarman

Garry Wills was being only slightly ironic when he wrote (in the wake of the…

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(A)theologies, Culture, Peter LaarmanFebruary 23, 2018

Billy Graham Was More Like White America’s Surrogate Savior Than “America’s Pastor”

By Peter Laarman

OK, I completely understand why the Graham family and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association would cotton…

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OMFG, Peter Laarman, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJanuary 30, 2018

Hillary Clinton’s Disgraced “Faith Guru” is Out… Now How About the “Faith Operations” Industry?

By Peter Laarman

Burns Strider, Hillary Clinton’s disgraced former “faith guru”—accused of sexually harassing at least two young…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Peter Laarman, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderDecember 26, 2017

The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness

By Peter Laarman

Taking my cue from the revised pater noster commended by His Holiness, I begin by…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveDecember 3, 2017

For Unto (Some of) Us a Child is Born: Handel’s Messiah and the Voice of Empire Rising

By Peter Laarman

‘Tis the season for Christian supersessionism.

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Archive, Featured, Peter Laarman, Politics/LawNovember 2, 2017

Shameful GOP Tax Plan Taxes Reality

By Peter Laarman

Okay, we’re off to the races on what the White House and GOP Congressional leadership…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveOctober 24, 2017

Paul for the People: John Dominic Crossan Imagines a “Letter to the Americans” In His New Video Series

By Peter Laarman

John Dominic Crossan: “Scholarly research on the Bible is inadequate or irrelevant if at least some of the scholars do not communicate their insights to laypeople who are eager to think and who are aware that baptism is not the same as lobotomy.”

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(A)theologies, Archive, Peter Laarman, Politics/LawSeptember 29, 2017

Will Dems Find Moxie to Resist Immoral GOP Tax Plan?

By Peter Laarman

For almost ten years now, the folks at Sojourners and other progressive evangelical outfits have…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveSeptember 4, 2017

Lying Boldly: Louise Hay and the Problem of Religious Science

By Peter Laarman

The news of Louise Hay’s death took me right back to the mid-1980s and the…

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawAugust 21, 2017

Soft Supremacy: When “Liking” Love Is Not Enough

By Peter Laarman

We learned last week that Trump the Enabler doesn’t need Steve Bannon at his side…

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