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Brie Loskota and Peter Gudaitis

Brie Loskota is executive director of the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture (@brieloskota @usccrcc). Peter Gudaitis is the president of the National Disaster Interfaiths Network (@PBGudaitis @ndinnet). They co-authored FEMA IS 505, Religious and Cultural Literacy and Competency in Disaster, and train faith communities and government agencies to work together on community preparedness.

(A)theologies, ArchiveAugust 30, 2017

Prosperity Gospel Is Not the Only Problem with Joel Osteen’s Harvey Response

By Brie Loskota and Peter Gudaitis

Twitter was outraged Monday. Megachurch Pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church, housed in a former basketball arena,…

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