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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 celebrated 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, June 23, 2005US exceptionalism carried too far?This morning on NPR, the UN High Commissioner on Torture said in a BBC interview that he and his commission had first requested an inspecition tour of Guantanamo Bay in January 2004. In preliminary talks with US officials from the State Department and Pentagon in Geneva, he got the impression that they would be invited to make this visit. In June of 2004 they were still being encouraged by their contacts in Geneva. As of June 2005, eighteen months later, no invitation has been forthcoming. It is difficult not to conclude that this secretive Administration continues to consider itself superior to and exempt from international standards of "cruel and inhumane treatment." What other conclusion can be drawn? Is this what we want to celebrate about ourselves, this Fourth of July?
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