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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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Discerning God's Work In The World: Tips From The Times For Preachers: The importance of the Geneva Conventions in WW2Wednesday, May 11, 2005The importance of the Geneva Conventions in WW2Freeman Dyson reviews Armageddon: The Battle For Germany, by Max Hastings, in The New York Review of Books, April 28, 2005The history of WW2 teaches us several lessons that are still valid today. First is the immense importance of the Geneva Conventions on humane treatment of prisoners in mitigating the human costs of war. [In Hastings' book] we see a stark contrast between two kinds of war, the war in the West following the Geneva rules and the war in the East fought without rules...In the Western war, soldiers who reached the prison camps were treated in a civilized fashion, with some supervision by delegates of the International Red Cross. They were neither starved nor tortured. At the same time, on the eastern side of the war, brutality was the rule and the IRC had no voice. Civilians were routinely raped and murdered, and prisoners of war were starved...It is not possible to calculate the numbers of lives saved in the West and lost in the East by following and not following the Geneva rules...Americans who are trying today to weaken or evade the Geneva rules are acting shortsightedly as well as immorally.
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