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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 PreachersThursday, October 06, 2005Does this remind you of anyone?In Orhan Pamuk's important novel about religious strife in eastern Turkey, Snow, he describes a meeting of revolutionary leaders who “sat down with an easy confidence known only to those for whom it has become second nature to decide other people’s fates.” Philip Gourevitch expresses a similar thought in a somewhat different way in his book about the Rwandan genocide, in which he writes that having power over another person [or group] means forcing them to inhabit your story of their reality.
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