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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: April 2007Wednesday, April 11, 2007God on the march in Zimbabwe? still continuedThere is very little news about Zimbabwe in the US, but since the country used to be called Rhodesia, the BBC follows developments there with considerable interest. It seems to me that this is potentially one of the great stories of Christian resistance of our time. I may be wrong, of course, but we need to remember the great biblical prototypes to give us hope and confidence in God's future.In any case, these brave Zimbabwean resisters deserve our admiration and respect. The Roman Catholic Church, perhaps mindful of its institutional failure in Rwanda, is taking the lead. Unfortunately, the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe is apparently sitting on the sidelines (not that the Anglicans distinguished themselves in Rwanda either). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6538251.stm
Permanent Link for this Post: http://www.generousorthodoxy.org/tips-from-the-times/2007/04/god-on-march-in-zimbabwe-still.htm Sunday, April 08, 2007God on the march in Zimbabwe? continuedIt would be a great thing if the Christian Church in Zimbabwe could join the ranks of Solidarity in Poland, the anti-apartheid movement, the Civil Rights movement, the Velvet Revolution, etc...Sadly, it is only the Roman Catholics so far who are mounting this resistance. The Anglicans, according to this article, are being timid. Here is the latest link, for Easter Day.http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/04/08/zimbabwe.easter.ap/index.html
Permanent Link for this Post: http://www.generousorthodoxy.org/tips-from-the-times/2007/04/god-on-march-in-zimbabwe-continued.htm A significant new article about evangelicals in AmericaFrances Fitzgerald, the highly regarded journalist and writer (Pulitzer-Prize-winning Fire in the Lake, about Vietnam) may not be a practicing Christian, but she brings her finely honed analytical skills to bear in an article signaling the potentially revolutionary recent developments in American evangelicalism. She makes a few mistakes, and she might have talked to more people (it would have been interesting if she had interviewed evangelicals within the mainlines), but on the whole it is a remarkably even-toned, careful, insightful--perhaps even sympathetic piece. It's in the new issue of The New York Review of Books.Here's the link: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20131
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