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      Progressive Christian Election Response ‘Give us Barabbas’ May Be Well-Meaning — But Functions as Anti-Jewish Dogwhistle
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      New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With
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      Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC
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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, Peter Laarman, Politics/LawJuly 15, 2016

Yale Clings to Racist Legacy… And Cash. Lots of Cash.

By Peter Laarman

God and Mammon at Yale.

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Archive, Peter Laarman, Remapping American ChristianitiesJuly 10, 2016

A Post-Dallas Challenge for Religious Progressives: Staying On Message About Structural Racism

By Peter Laarman

The easily-predicted meme of the moment coming from law enforcement officials and their many political…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Peter Laarman, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/Gender, Special FeaturesJune 13, 2016

Our Dance Clubs, Our Churches

By Peter Laarman

I don’t know how we ever forgot that we are graced with every breath of…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Books, Politics/Law, Remapping American ChristianitiesJune 9, 2016

The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

By Peter Laarman

At 400 pages, Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawMay 27, 2016

The Sanders Insurgency: A Return to the “Secular Sacred”?

By Peter Laarman

What a significant part of the political class disparages as Bernie Sanders’ egomania may actually…

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(A)theologies, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Culture, Peter Laarman, Politics/LawMay 9, 2016

The Problem with Christian Gentlemen: A Short Goodbye to Ted Cruz, the “Mr. Pecksniff” of Presidential Politics

By Peter Laarman

Credit where credit is due.  Ted Cruz has a way about him. A way that…

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(A)theologies, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Peter Laarman, Politics/Law, RD BlogApril 8, 2016

“Unrealistic” Candidates and the Prophetic Tradition

By Peter Laarman

I should say right away that this is no brief for the Sanders candidacy. I…

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Beyond Belief: Election 2016, OMFG, Peter Laarman, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderMarch 15, 2016

Not Ready to Forgive: Hillary Clinton & the Ugly Truth of the Reagan Years 

By Peter Laarman

Gay men of a certain age—those of us who survived the Plague Years when so…

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Beyond Belief: Election 2016, OMFG, Peter Laarman, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Remapping American ChristianitiesMarch 10, 2016

Joined at the Hip: White Nationalist Christianity and Donald Trump

By Peter Laarman

Why can’t Douthat admit that the apostasy he deplores is at the center of white Christianity and not at the margins?

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(A)theologies, Archive, Politics/Law, Reconstruction 3.0, Remapping American Christianities, Special FeaturesJanuary 14, 2016

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

Chances are you have heard something about the Rev. William Barber II. He is the…

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