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Fleming Rutledge

@frutledge.bsky.social
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Episcopal priest, theologian, author of "The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ" and many other books. Wife, grandmother. Working on the fault line between evangelical and progressive. Romans 11:32.

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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
We Episcopalians lost so much when we gave this up. I grew up with it from early childhood, being in a Morning Prayer parish. It comforts me still, just as it was with the "offensive" phrases still in place.
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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This week's New Yorker cover. Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison. Title: "You're fired!"
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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This, my latest, is from Baylor University Press who also hosts such luminaries as Ephraim Radner. This book would not exist without the initiatives of Kimlyn Bender, Professor of Systematic Theology at Truett, and one of the best colleagues I've had in my whole life--which is saying quite a lot.
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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I'm late with this, but the Twelve Days last till Jan. 6. Emily H McGowin's Christmas book (in same IVP series as my Epiphany) digs into the entire season not only theologically but also with emphasis on the "lowly," marginal people whom God loves. These 2 pages give a good sample of what she's done
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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A dear friend, knowing what I'm going through, sent this. I never thought I'd be looking for daily help from James, but this works for me...because the subject is PATIENCE, which is the gift of the Spirit, not something I work up in myself. The agency is God's. That, as always, makes the difference
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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
On Thanksgiving Day, I like to reread this passage from William Bradford's "History of Plymouth Plantation. The Pilgrims/Puritans are much scorned today, but I find their devotion to the Word of God and to one another quite inspiring. No human collective has ever been without sin.
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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Advent is near. I argue in my book (second-best selling of all my books, but not very influential so far!) that it is the duty of the church to resist premature Christmas promotion, 99% commercial in its origin and power. A rigorous Advent can be our liturgical and personal resistance.
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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I am collecting various writings by secular commentators that are remarkable apropos of the challenge faced by the mainline churches in the present environment. Virtue-signaling has clearly had its day. Here is something by a writer I admire, Roger Rosenblatt:
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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Had lunch in NYC with Tom Holland last week at the Century Club. What a blessing. If you haven't read "Dominion" yet, you've missed one of the greatest reads ever on the history of Christianity in the West.
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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
It's a bit late in the season, but this is 2/3 Lenten sermons and 1/3 Easter sermons:
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