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Fleming Rutledge is a preacher and teacher known throughout the mainline Protestant denominations of the US, Canada and parts of the UK. She is the author of seven books and has received a grant from the Louisville Foundation to complete a book about the meaning of the Crucifixion.
One of the first women to be ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church, she served for fourteen years on the clergy staff at Grace Church on Lower Broadway at Tenth Street, New York City. Fleming and her husband celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2009 and have two daughters and two grandchildren. She is a native of Franklin, Virginia.
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Ruminations: Yet again AvatarSaturday, February 27, 2010Yet again AvatarI guess everyone knows by now that Avatar is controversial (see two posts in Tips, with links). The latest is that depressed and unhappy young people are flooding cyberspace with mournful and even suicidal longings to go and live on Pandora. This is really sad, although I don't know that we can blame James Cameron for it.As for me, after I endured Avatar (it does have a few good points) I came home and, as an antidote, watched Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. No racial insinuations (no races!), no political agenda, no escapism, no computer-generated flying monsters or floating clods of dirt (mountains??), no religious mumbo-jumbo, just good actors, a gritty set, honest earthbound camera work, terrific battle scenes, and moral ambiguity to spare.
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