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    • Texas Faith Leaders Say Governor’s Use of Pandemic to Ban Abortion is an Attack on Religious Freedom (Updated)
      Texas Faith Leaders Say Governor’s Use of Pandemic to Ban Abortion is an Attack on Religious Freedom (Updated)
    • Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine
      Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine
    • How Do Evangelical Missionaries in Brazil Justify Risking Indigenous Lives During a Pandemic?
      How Do Evangelical Missionaries in Brazil Justify Risking Indigenous Lives During a Pandemic?
  • (A)theologies
    • If Something About Trump’s Bible Photo-Op Felt Familiar There’s a Good Reason
      If Something About Trump’s Bible Photo-Op Felt Familiar There’s a Good Reason
    • Hope & Change in a Racist Nation: A Necessary Disillusion
      Hope & Change in a Racist Nation: A Necessary Disillusion
    • Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right
      Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right
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    • A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
      A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
    • Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)
      Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)
    • Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
      Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
  • New Books
    • Whatever COVID-19 Brings, This Chaplain Wants You to Remember That the Death Rate is Ultimately 100%
      Whatever COVID-19 Brings, This Chaplain Wants You to Remember That the Death Rate is Ultimately 100%
    • How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote
      How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote
    • Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon
      Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon
  • Politics/Law
    • White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth
      White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth
    • If Something About Trump’s Bible Photo-Op Felt Familiar There’s a Good Reason
      If Something About Trump’s Bible Photo-Op Felt Familiar There’s a Good Reason
    • Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right
      Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right

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/LawFebruary 23, 2009

Why Is Obama Reaching Out to Ravening Wolves?

By Peter Laarman

If Obama keeps his eye on the conservative fiscal prizes, like cutting Social Security for example, he’ll be on the express train to the dustbin of history.

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Culture, Politics/LawFebruary 4, 2009

Daschle Is Gone—But the Stench of Insider Corruption Lingers

By Peter Laarman

While it’s good that Obama won’t have this rotten apple in his administration it does nothing about the tree.

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