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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 Preachers: Should a President suffer?Sunday, December 10, 2006Should a President suffer?Peggy Noonan, Bush 41's speechwriter, has a column in this weekend's Wall Street Journal (back page of the "Pursuits" section). She confesses that she is baffled that George W., unlike his father who has taken to crying in public, shows no signs whatever of the state of things in Iraq or the battering he himself is receiving. She summons up images of the suffering of Abraham Lincoln and the lonely anguish of Lyndon Johnson. Then she writes:But George W. Bush seems, in the day to day, the same as he was. It is part of the Bush conundrum -- a supernal serenity or a confidence born of cluelessness?...I'll tell you, I wonder about it and do not understand it...I'd ask someone in the White House, but they're still stuck in Rote [Rove?] Talking Point Land: "The President of course has moments of weariness but is sustained by his knowledge of the ultimate rightness of his course." If he suffers, they might tell us; it would make him seem more normal...but maybe there is no suffering. Maybe he outsources suffering. Maybe he leaves it to his father.
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