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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 six 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. A native of Franklin, Virginia, Mrs. Rutledge has been married for forty-five years and has two daughters and two grandchildren.
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Discerning God's Work In The World: Tips From The Times For Preachers: Tutu quotes RomansFriday, May 23, 2008Tutu quotes RomansI sometimes fuss about Archbishop Desmond Tutu's sloppy theology, which has become a part of his shtick in recent years, but he gets it right more often than he gets it wrong (besides being perhaps the most heroic Christian of our time, for which he can be forgiven anything). Today's New York Times quotes him in an article about the distressing outbreak of murderous violence against immigrants in South Africa:"We human beings, ever since the Garden of Eden, are looking for scapegoats,” the Rev. Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, wrote in a regretful essay. “We remain children of Adam and Eve, and have the genes for looking for excuses.” This is a statement of classic Biblical theology. See Genesis 2-3, Leviticus 16:20-22, and Romans 5:12-21. By the way, the article was written by Barry Bearak, who just recently spent a very scary few days as a prisoner of the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. Link to complete article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/world/africa/23safrica.html?ref=todayspaper
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