Fleming Rutledge, 2008 Beeson Lecturer
Mrs. Fleming Rutledge will visit the Asbury Kentucky campus as the 2008 Beeson Lecturer on Feb. 26-27. She will speak in chapel on Tues., Feb. 26 at 11 a.m. and will deliver the Beeson lectures on Tues., Feb 26 at 4 p.m. and Wed., Feb 27 at 11 a.m. All events will be in Estes Chapel on the Asbury Kentucky campus. For more information, contact Jenny Carson at 859-858-2254.
The Beeson Lectures in Biblical Preaching were established through the Beeson bequest for the purpose of delineating, advocating and modeling excellence in biblical preaching. The lectures were inaugurated in 1992 by Donald English and normally occur in February.
Fleming Rutledge, having spent twenty-two years in parish ministry, now has an international preaching vocation. She is widely recognized as a teacher of other preachers in the mainline Protestant denominations of the US and has extended her ministry into Canada and the UK. She has twice been a resident Fellow of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton.
Her most recent book is Not Ashamed of the Gospel: Sermons From Romans. Her previous sermon collections, The Bible and The New York Times, Help My Unbelief, The Undoing of Death, and The Seven Last Words from the Cross have met with wide acclaim across denominational lines. Her book about the theology of The Lord of the Rings, called The Battle for Middle-earth, has been called the best available volume on the subject. She has received a grant from the Louisville Institute, funded by the Lilly Foundation, to complete a substantial book about the meaning of the Crucifixion. Her website is www.generousorthodoxy.org.
One of the first women to be ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church, Mrs. Rutledge 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-nine years to Reginald E. (Dick) Rutledge. They have two daughters and two grandchildren.