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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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      Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC
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      Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations
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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, Culture, Peter Laarman, Politics/LawDecember 30, 2016

Stronger Than We Look: Ten Tendrils of Hope for 2017

By Peter Laarman

Readers are urged to quarrel with this list or make up their own list. The point is to keep hope alive.

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(A)theologies, ArchiveDecember 22, 2016

Praying With Eyes Open: Christmas is a Big Deal for Liberal Christians Too

By Peter Laarman

Liberals like me can’t really bring ourselves to believe that Christ will be coming again in glory. This means we have to settle with what we’ve got: a man who showed us what God is like in the brief span of a still-obscure life long ago.

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawNovember 30, 2016

Re-branding Is Not the Cure: Campolo & Claiborne Miss the Core Problem in Evangelicalism

By Peter Laarman

There certainly was a time when leading evangelicals railed against money grubbing and corporate domination, but that time is long past.

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(A)theologies, Archive, Books, Peter LaarmanNovember 21, 2016

In Trump’s America, a Reminder of Our Prophetic Past

By Peter Laarman

Read about some “fearless American originals” as we stare down the barrel of a Trump presidency.

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(A)theologies, Beyond Belief: Election 2016November 9, 2016

No More Condescension: What We Can Do Now

By Peter Laarman

Enough people voted with a vengeance to give Donald Trump the presidency.

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Beyond Belief: Election 2016September 19, 2016

That Queasy Feeling? It’s What Happens When You Realize Americans Are Voting with Their Viscera

By Peter Laarman

Yes, the Bible Advises Us to Go with Our Gut – But Not This Way

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(A)theologies, Archive, Books, Peter Laarman, Remapping American Christianities, Special FeaturesSeptember 11, 2016

From Organized Religion to Organizing Religion: Brian D. McLaren Wants Christians to Be Better

By Peter Laarman

In his new book, Brian McLaren argues that it’s not possible to break open a socially regressive Christianity without confronting the bad theology that places a vindictive God at the center of the universe.

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(A)theologies, Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawSeptember 4, 2016

If Hillary Wins Big It Won’t Be a Moral Victory—And That’s a Crying Shame

By Peter Laarman

The favored rich will certainly rest easy with her in office. The rest of us, I’m not so sure.

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Books, Peter LaarmanJuly 27, 2016

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

The old refrain that white liberals are the bane of systemic change applies differently when…

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(A)theologies, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Peter Laarman, Politics/LawJuly 25, 2016

Dems’ “Great Satan” Strategy Falls Apart Right From Start

By Peter Laarman

It’s those little Satans that spoil the broth?

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